On April 13, 2023, the UK Department for Transport gave Ford Motor Company permission to use Advanced Driver Assistance Technology (BlueCruise), enabling “hands-off, eyes-on” driving on selected motorways in England, Scotland and Wales, referred to as the Blue Zones, currently covering approximately 3,700 km.
The International Transport, Shipping and Logistics Fair is an event addressed to companies, institutions and people interested in implementing new technologies, innovative products or services related to transport, logistics and storage. The substantive partner of this year's, fourth edition of the fair, which took place on April 4-6, 2023 at Ptak Warsaw Expo, was the Motor Transport Institute (ITS). The motto of the event was "Digitization and Innovation in Road Transport".
The European Commission aims to develop solutions in the field of standardizing the rules of access to data and the free flow of data in the EU, which will bring benefits to enterprises, scientists and public administration. Data is one of the drivers of innovation, so the issues of formulating rules defining who and when can access them need to be regulated.
On February 17, 2023, the Electromobility and Autonomous Transport Section of the Committee on Transport Polish Academy of Sciences meeting, chaired by the head of the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Competence Centre, prof. Marcin Ślęzak, Ph.D., D.Sc., was held at the Faculty of Transport of the Warsaw University of Technology.
On February 27, 2023 - March 1, 2023, Motor Transport Institute’s Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Competence Centre (CK:PAP) experts participated in the Machine Diagnostics Symposium.
On January 26, 2023, the DRIVE PILOT system from Mercedes-Benz was the first and only one so far to be approved for use on public roads in the state of Nevada (United States). Level 3 SAE system has been implemented in a serial vehicle manufactured German brand.
From the beginning of January 2023, a new law was introduced in the US state of California. The regulations prohibit the use by vehicle manufacturers and dealers of system names and functions descriptions that may imply the possibility of driving without the participation of the driver (Senate Bill No. 1398). The limitation applies to descriptions of functionalities that do not result directly from the actual capabilities of the vehicles.
On January 17, 2023, experts of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Competence Centre participated in the Information and Networking event on Work Program 2023 topics organized by the CCAM Association in Brussels. The event aimed to enable cooperation between the association members, facilitate direct contacts and build new consortia.
The position paper drafted by the ITS CK:PAP team and EFA has been published on the European Driving Schools Association website. The document includes e.g. recommendations on new methods of driver training in the safe use of driver assistance systems.
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