The netherlands will have a highway to self-propelled cars
Posted on 20-09-2013, at 11:03 by ricardo – 43 Comments”
Car manufacturers are making huge leaps in the field of autonomous vehicles, that much is clear, but lawmakers still find that you are in a zelfrij car not just with your phone/phablet/tablet/espresso may play without you on the traffic note. This is changing now.
The A270 between Eindhoven and Helmond is the first proefsnelweg in the Netherlands, where autonomous vehicles to your heart’s content tested may be in a realistic traffic environment. Because on a circuit to see that your car all by yourself is fun, we prefer to see that they managed to keep it in the real world.
It is a bargain between the more Accessible Southeast Brabant (BBZOB), the RDW, the municipalities of Eindhoven and Helmond and the province North-Brabant. With road, the next time test conditions established, such as the non-obstruction of road users and local residents. Not unimportant no.
The self-propelled car by our RDW actually received with open arms. That let through director Johan Hakkenberg know that they, together with TNO, the technical universities of Delft and Eindhoven, to work on the admission of the self-propelled car in the Netherlands, and all new rules that look. When that legislation is there, it is only as of yet unknown.
But who works there again to zelfrij cars? They are:
- Stanford University + Audi
- Audi
- BMW
- The Dutch-Israeli Mobileye
- Nissan
- Volvo
- Lexus
- Tesla
- Mercedes
It is now only the question of who is there if first comes on the market. And whether there actually is a market for…