Quite often and in many industries, such as financial services, there is call for the reduction of regulation and the liberalization of market.
In the case of connected and autonomous vehicles the opposite is true, and it has to be so. The key issue is the lack of regulatory harmonization across borders, making the development of what Magnus Gunnarsson, head of connected vehicle at Ericsson, calls ‘global cars’ much trickier to achieve.
He points out that the automotive industry is global. Vehicles may be engineered in one country and then manufactured in another part of the world before being shipped and sold in a third nation. “With the increase of local data protection regulations, the environment is getting somewhat more complicated and we are, therefore, designing our technology in a way that can combine the automaker’s need for global service roll-outs with the regulatory needs for local data management,” he says.
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Client: InformaTech, published by TU Automotive 16th August 2022. Author/journalist: Graham Jarvis.
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