In Japan, a giant public-private consortium that will address issues of development, testing and implementation of car-robots, including all related infrastructure. According to the business newspaper, the Nikkei, such global measures were a response to the success of the Japanese Government of Germany and the United States in this area. Only the first tranche of State support to create test sites will be the equivalent of 84 million dollars.
According to the press, full cooperation will be launched this summer. On the part of manufacturers will be presented to the three largest companies — Toyota, Nissan and Honda, the electronics manufacturers, Panasonic and Hitachi. the scientific potential of the University of Tokyo and Nagoya will.
The first step would be the unification of common standards for all market players: they will concern security, systems management, unity of infrastructure (signal frequencies, markup language, special characters, and so on). The result of the work of the Consortium should be not just an affordable and safe machines of robots, but in fact the whole legislative framework relating to their exploitation.
It seems Japan intends to overtake the United States with a jerk and powerful Europe, where development of robomobilej go very rapidly, but on the principle of who in the Woods who on firewood and know-how protection looks is more important than the exchange of information. Maybe in five years, when the European Parliament will have to decide whether to allow tests robots Daimler in Berlin, Tokyo will have to ride a taxi without drivers.