Autonomy Summits

The summit series for the people building Europe’s autonomous future. London moves people. Munich moves goods. Prague builds the vehicles.

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"Meant for global scale, but in the end, the safe application of them is hyper-local."

Hans Fridberg of Holo on why every city needs a local operator doing continuous risk assessment.

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"When you remove the driver, you basically remove the most important intelligence layer of operations."

Laura Herzig of Beta Mobility on why Europe's safety drivers hide the true cost of scaling self-driving.

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Every commercial robotaxi ride ever taken adds up to less than half of what Uber does in one day.

Lukas Neckermann, curator of the European AV Summit, on how small robotaxis still are: "an imperceptible blip."

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"A single end-to-end model just won't have that sort of redundancy and black-box explainability."

Motor AI CTO Adam Bahlke on being able to trace what a self-driving system did.

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"There is a very clear return on investment for public transportation operators to switch to autonomous driving systems."

Adastec's Ali Danisman on driver costs and the driver shortage in the bus sector.

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"Equally good is not enough. It needs to be better, safer and cheaper."

Yong Gessner on what it takes for people to switch to robotaxis, and why cost cuts come only with scale.

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A Swiss train bought today will still be running in 2066.

Andreas Jossen of SBB on why the railway plans for 2050 now, and the fear that robotaxis "come in over our heads and replace public transportation."

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"We can't make things happen… We can enable it or we can constrain it."

Michael Talbot, Head of Automated Mobility at the UK Department for Business and Trade, on government's role in self-driving.

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"In most of the cases the customers, after one and a half years, have at least a break-even, even if the technology is very expensive."

Loxo co-founder Lara Amini on why autonomous delivery pays when it is built as a new concept.

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"Who believes in level three?" One hand goes up in a London room.

Momenta's Sebastian Osswald: in China, Level 3 is not a question of belief. "It's already planned. It's there."

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"Powered land is one of the most underappreciated asset classes. In fact, it's not even an asset class yet."

Amir Nayeri of Neo Infrastructure: location still matters. In the age of electrification, so do zoning and power.

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"A really evil fridge can only do so much." A hacked two-ton van can do a lot more.

Arthur Kay, author of Roadkill, on why robotaxis should be treated as surface drones, not gadgets.

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"Right now, it's human to human. Potentially, this will be human versus big tech. How do you stand in court against big tech?"

Road safety campaigner Meera Naran MBE.

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"I am the voice of London's buses."

Emma Hignett voices every London bus and the Elizabeth line. Weeks before the line opened, every recording still said Crossrail.

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"It's the world's first production vehicle with a foldable steering wheel. So, at the click of a button, it goes away."

Tensor's Hugo Fozzati on a robocar you drive, or fold the wheel and work.

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The UK is smaller than Nvidia and Alphabet. Greece is only just bigger than Uber.

Arthur Kay, author of Roadkill, says that makes the firms building AVs closer to nation states than suppliers.

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London's Ubers and taxis move at 9 mph. "That's slower than a bicycle moves."

Odysse founder Anant Prakash: London has no shortage of drivers or cars. It has an efficiency problem.

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"We think Europe is going to be about five years behind other countries — and I think it's a good thing."

Bolt President Jevgeni Kabanov on why Europe can learn from the US and China and do it well.

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Every time Finland got a driverless bus route, the comments said "It will fly everyone to the moon."

Two weeks later, the fear was gone.

Mika Rytkönen of Remoted on winning riders round.

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A mini roundabout where nobody drives properly, on a blind hill, with buses and a school crossing.

That's the test London sets for self-driving cars. James Long of the Smart Mobility Living Lab.

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