A 130-kilometer-long laboratory highway to experiment with i self-driving vehicles and partially autonomous. It's the project Uk-Citefunded in part by the UK Government and launched by a consortium of Jaguar Land Rover, Visteon, Siemens, Vodafone, Coventry City Council and the Universities of Warwick and Coventry.
The authorized stretch is the one between Coventry and Solihull, in England, along which up to one hundred connected and highly automated cars will be tested, in order to evaluate their reactions on different types of intersections.
A fundamental stage in the journey towards "self-driving cars", which also necessarily passes through the evolution of standards and road infrastructure, in addition obviously to the achievement of a technological growth such as to avoid the error.
This technology, explains one of the managers of Bosch's Chassis System Control & Autonomus Driving Division, "is already available", but, to be implemented, it needs the go-ahead from those who manage the infrastructure.
It's Italy? As often happens, in our area we are stopped to look at what happens elsewhere, as also clarified by Massimo Schintu, general manager of Aiscat, the Italian association of motorway concessionaires: “We are not doing anything for now. There is no law that allows the circulation of vehicles of this kind in Italy and there is no standard valid for all”.
The problem, according to Schintu, is that it is precisely the car manufacturers that do not want this standard, with the increasingly concrete risk of falling behind, leaving it to others to develop and exploit the technology of self-driving vehicles.
