Top-level meeting about automated vehicles will be held in Gothenburg in 2018
In spring 2018, Sweden will host an international conference about autonomous and connected vehicles for EU ministers and commissioners.
SAFER's director Magnus Granström comments on the news as follows:
`We at SAFER are pleased about the news that there will be a summit on self-driving vehicles in Gothenburg in the spring. The self-driving vehicles are an important aspect of road safety, and the Gothenburg region, with its overall competence, is very advanced in a Europe perspective´.
It is the new Swedish infrastructure minister, Tomas Eneroth, who invited his EU ministerial colleges to the summit. Tomas Eneroth says to TT:
'One of the reasons for choosing the West Coast is that Lindholmen Science Park together with Volvo Car Corpoation and Chalmers is running a project to have 100 self-driving cars on Gothenburg streets at the end of 2017´.
The preliminary date for the conference is June 18-19.
