60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe

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Future Self-driving cars in Italy think it is not only technology (perhaps above all) political support. Then the good news is that more than 60 mayors in Italy have decided to take the field for future cars.

On July 14, Milan’s Hall of the Meet Digital Culture Center, European Parliament Member Pierre Francesco Maran for the Italian Democratic Party, autonomous driving: Italy has supported Italy in front of the country, which has administrators across the country.

Among the signatures of the project are Milan Mayor Bepp Sala and Turin Mayor Stefano Lo Russo, as well as dozens of medium -sized and small cities. Obviously, the goal is to make Italy a European leader in autonomous vehicles, turning municipal regions into an open-air laboratory to test the near future automotive technologies.

Caught up with the United States and China

This initiative arises from the realization that Europe is dramatically lagging behind the United States and China. While Wemo It fills more than 250,000 paid rides in four cities in four cities, and China has established 20 pilots with more than 74 million miles of tests, with less than half of Europe’s limited 400 most fragmented micro-projects-less than half of nationwide.

The gap is not just geographical. In the United States and China, private individuals and agencies invest in billions, in Europe, government funds are spread in very few initiatives. Done of Europe, 2 27, with 2 27 different national frameworks (with separate traffic laws), makes it impossible to exploit any of the single continental market in the region.

Autonomous driving car in Italy

A Wemo self-driving vehicle in San Francisco.

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Italian administrators see autonomous driving as a practical solution to daily urban problems, such as the last mile of urban supply and reduce traffic and pollution in urban centers. Increase the right to mobility for the elderly, DisabledAnd children are also a priority shared by many administrators of the country, as the use of autonomous vehicles to better connect the suburbs of suburban areas that served weakly by public transport.

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