Vigo and Porto and Évora and Mérida are the two "corridors" where the technology of autonomous European cars based on the 5G network will be tested. The agreement was signed today on Digital Day.

 

The project to develop corridors between several European countries is underway and the signing of the agreement between Portugal and Spain, today during the Digital Day conference in Brussels, is another step towards the creation of a network of priority highways for the development of autonomous driving technology based on 5G.Portugal networks was already on the list announced in September with the launch of the initiative, joining a number of countries that will advance in this first phase of testing.

 

The agreement counts on the commitment of member states and the industry to start testing on several roads, including the Portugal-Spain corridors already mentioned, but also Metz-Merzig-Luxembourg; Rotterdam-Antwerp-Eindhoven; the corridor between Norway and Finland, known as the E8 Aurora Borealis that passes between Tromsø and Oulu; and the Nordic Way, between Sweden, Finland and Norway.

 

The idea is to test third-level autonomous driving technology (with a present driver) on roads linking two European countries as well as 5G networks that are starting to become reality as early as 2019 in some European cities.

 

Some countries are already more advanced in this project of creating a network of tests of autonomous cars, namely France, Germany and Luxembourg, who have already announced the creation of a joint corridor between Luxembourg, Metz and Merzig. Norway, Finland and Sweden are also advancing with the corridors between Tromsø (Norway) and Oulu (Finland) and the E18 corridor between Helsinki, Stockholm and Oslo, while the Netherlands and Belgium are centered on the Rotterdam-Antwerp-Eindhoven corridor. Bulgaria is working with Greece and Serbia on the Thessaloniki - Sophia - Belgrade corridor and Italy has already indicated its intention to move forward with three regions of the Tyrol in a corridor along the Brenner motorway which receives more than 60 million vehicles all the years.

 

Source, SAPOTek.