The autonomous vehicles will be tested in Portugal under an Iberian project aimed at the development of this technology, scheduled to begin in 2019, and has already signed an agreement with Spain to establish a test 'corridor' between the two nations .

 

This partnership between Portugal and Spain within the scope of autonomous driving arises under a European platform called C-Roads, which aims to harmonize the technological systems between all the Member States of the European Union, allowing countries and concessionaires of roads to implement services high-tech, flawless and discrete The agreement for Portuguese-Spanish cooperation was signed last week in Brussels with Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins, Secretary of State for Infrastructures, praising Lusa that the C-Roads project has a "pioneering character in Europe" , with the two countries of the Iberian Peninsula to be the first to advance, as early as 2019.

 

According to the official, "the first cross-border test" will be done "between two corridors: Porto and Vigo and Évora and Mérida. The project has an estimated duration of four years, with a total investment of 8.3 million euros, of which 50% comes from the European funding of this platform.

 

Source, Motor24.