Future of Self-driving cars in Italy seem to see not only technology, but also (possibly above all) political support. The good news is that more than 60 mayors in Italy have decided to take the ground for future cars.
On July 14, in the hall of the Meat Digital Culture Center in Milan, European Parliament member Pierfrenco Maran for the Italian Democratic Party Autonomous Driving: Italy in the Front Row Initiative, which is supporting Administrators from all over the country.
The signators of the scheme are Milan Mayor Beep Sala and Turin Mayor Stephano Low Ruso, as well as medium size and dozens of other mayors of small cities. The goal, apparently, to make Italy a European leader in autonomous vehicles, converting municipal areas into open air laboratories to testing near future motor vehicle technologies.
Hold with the United States and China
The initiative stems from the realization that Europe is dramatically behind the United States and China. While Womo meets more than 250,000 payments in four American cities a week, where it operates, and China has set up 20 pilot cities with a accumulated testing over 74 million miles, Europe is limited to 400 highly fragmented micro-projects-less than half of the nations are less than half of the nations.
The difference is not only geographical. In the United States and China, private individuals and companies invest billions, while in Europe, public funds are scattered on the initiatives that are very small. With the regulatory fragmentation of Europe, with 27 separate national structures (including separate traffic laws, for example), it also makes it impossible to take advantage of any advantage of the region.
Italian administrators see autonomous driving as a practical solution for everyday urban problems, such as the last-meal urban logistics and reducing traffic and pollution in the city centers. Extension of the right to dynamics for the elderly, disabledAnd children are also a priority shared by many administrators in the country, as is the use of autonomous vehicles to better connect suburban areas by public transport.
