00:00What is the future of autonomous driving?
00:04The work is far-reaching.
00:06We have been working on autonomous driving technology for years.
00:09We have made many steps.
00:11Today it is a starting point,
00:14a starting point because it values a lot of research done in recent years.
00:19It is a starting point because today, for the first time,
00:22on the public road, I emphasize, with a ministerial authorization
00:25that allows us to do experiments on the public road,
00:28we have shown how it is possible to use this technology
00:32for new mobility models.
00:34So not as a tool for the private sector,
00:37but as a tool to enable innovative, more efficient, more sustainable mobility models.
00:42This technology and these systems are so complex
00:46that it is now unthinkable to think they are the result of a single entity.
00:51Politecnico Milano is obviously a research center of excellence,
00:55of which I am very proud,
00:57and we certainly need a synergy.
00:59Today we had a very important partner, 2A,
01:03a company that is on the territory,
01:05that deals with mobility,
01:07distribution of electricity,
01:09recharge, therefore fundamental,
01:11but there are many other partners behind it.
01:13I mentioned Cisco.
01:15Much of the hardware technology inside the car is provided by Cisco,
01:19but we will have to increasingly aggregate
01:22the country's intellectual, economic and industrial forces
01:26to build a big, important project
01:29that shows that Italy is also able to fully develop services
01:34based on this technology,
01:36developed entirely in Italy.
01:38This is our dream, our goal.
01:40The first mile went well, we are in Brescia,
01:42so the 1,000 miles, we said it was the first mile,
01:44not the first kilometer,
01:46it went well, it did everything it had to do.
01:49So from an operational point of view,
01:52in the coming months,
01:54we will simply expand the area of the city
02:00on which we are able to do this route.
02:03So we complete the experimental research part in this regard.
02:08Obviously, the hope and ambition is to transform it
02:11into an industrial project,
02:13therefore a real service, an industrial project.
02:15The technological heart is there.
02:17Now we will have to aggregate the country's best forces
02:20to transform it into an industrial project.
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