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How do Europeans feel about self-driving cars?

How do Europeans expect connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to affect driving efficiency, road safety, data protection and sustainability? A recent survey has the answers.

The News article has just been published on the CORDIS website in six languages at:  https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/434335-how-do-europeans-feel-about-self-driving-cars?WT.mc_id=exp

The PAsCAL project (Enhance driver behaviour and Public Acceptance of Connected and Autonomous vehicLes) is co-funded by the European Union under the EU H2020 programme. The European Blind Union joined this project as it plans, amongst other things, to collect information on “visually impaired travellers and the connected transport environment”. In response to a call from the EBU at the end of 2020, the Italian Union of the Blind and Partially Sighted (UICI) committed to organising 4 Focus…

Two sophisticated simulations to evaluate the acceptability and behaviors towards autonomous vehicles

Two experiments involving significant simulation resources and numerous volunteer subjects recently took place at UBFC, in the context of the PAsCAL project. Indeed, UBFC coordinates five simulation experiments of the PAsCAL project and directly operates two of them. The other three are carried out by the LIST (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology) and the University of Liverpool. …

2nd international meeting on Simulator Design, March 31st, 2021 - online
SimuSafe project

Simulators are widely applied in training environments, especially in where safety is a primary issue. Simulators for training have been used in the aviation sector for ages as a mandatory part of the education, not only for student pilots but also for professionally active ones. The use and application of simulators in road transport is an important aspect to be applied to enhance the capabilities of…

The PAsCAL’s 5 pilots use connected autonomous vehicles in the real world, providing citizens the opportunity to test their effectiveness 

The context


The PAsCAL (Enhance driver behaviour and Public Acceptance of Connected and Autonomous vehicLes) project, funded within the H2020 programme of the European Commission, has officially launched its pilot testing phase. Each of the 5 pilots will focus on different aspects of Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs) within existing transportation…

The 2nd Drive2TheFuture workshop will take place online on March 12th, 2021.
Jo-Ann Pattinson, of the Leeds University, will represent PAsCAL among the panelists at the workshop.

Agenda and registration at:http://www.drive2thefuture.eu/2021/02/03/2nd-drive2thefuture-workshop/ 

More electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft companies are moving closer to certification and deployment and experts in the industry are looking to autonomous cars to predict the future of this emerging technology. During a March 2 Revolution.Aero town hall, industry experts discussed what lessons eVTOLs can learn from autonomous cars and how their roll-out might be different. 

One shared aspect between the development of autonomous vehicles and eVTOLs is their predicted…

Dede, G., Hamon, R., Junklewitz, H., Naydenov, R., Malatras, A. and Sanchez, I., Cybersecurity challenges in the uptake of artificial intelligence in autonomous driving, EUR 30568 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021, ISBN 978-92-76-28646-2, doi:10.2760/551271, JRC122440.

This report, drafted jointly by ENISA and JRC, describes the policy context at both the European and international levels. It delves then into the technical aspects of AI in the automotive sector,…

The process of developing mobility in the coming years has long since taken the path that leads to the ever-widen spread of cars led by artificial intelligence. A shift that, however, in order to achieve the status of an effective improvement in living conditions for each, must first go through the most complete and possible widespread acceptance by the public globally.

To achieve this, Europe has in recent years put in place a series of projects that share the same common purpose: to speed…