The automotive industry and telecommunications companies have come together to defend connected cars in Europe. The European Automobile and Telecommunications Alliance (EATA) has made public a memorandum so that the European Parliament and the European Commission that come out of the May elections make a clear commitment to incorporate the latest technologies and forget about the current project of a connected car ‘ low cost ‘and’ low technology ‘.
The employers of telephony operators and telecommunications technologies and associations of automobile and component manufacturers remind candidates for European elections of industry requests after the regulation approved by the European Commission in an initial phase, which considered as a brake on the potential that would imply the implementation of the5G connectivityIn cars and roads.
Companies involved in connected vehicles demand a clear regulatory framework that encourages investment and innovation, that fragmentation is avoided, that technological neutrality is favored and that cooperation is encouraged.
Average cost of 300 euros per car
The European Commission estimates that cars connected with a much less powerful and reliable data transmission technology than the 5G will have an average cost of 300 euros per vehicle. However, these low cost connected cars will have much more limited features due to the initial technology they will incorporate.
Instead of 5G, the European Commission has opted for “an obsolete wifi technology (802.11p) for connected vehicles”, according to the GSMA association, which brings together more than 750 telephony and communications operators from around the world. . The entity, which focused the lastMobile World CongressOrganizing in Barcelona on the potential of 5G, warns that the choice of Brussels will hinder the deployment in Europe of the most powerful technology of the C-V2X standard, which is becoming the world standard for connected cars.
Seat and Telefónica project
GSMA considers that the possibility that the European Commission opens of a technological revision in a second phase through a new regulation is not enough to avoid the brake on investments on the way to the implementation of 5G.