UAE moves up a spot found in driverless car readiness ranking
The UAE edged up one place to eighth in KPMG's gross annual Autonomous Vehicles Readiness Index, performing well in technology infrastructure and the willingness of its people and federal government to embrace driverless cars.
Since KPMG primary released the index in 2018, widespread excitement around the technology has given way to open public scepticism that AVs could be "all hype", Richard Threlfall, KPMG's global head of infrastructure, said. But this year the industry "entered an interval of development maturity, during which the complex issues of implementation are getting addressed".
New regulations and large-scale lab tests of driverless cars are underway in many jurisdictions worldwide, in line with the Dutch consulting and audit strong.
"We are also seeing AVs transfer to use all over the world in public transportation and in closed-site conditions such as for example mining and logistics," Mr Threlfall said.
The World Wellbeing Organisation estimates that there are 1.35 million road deaths and 50 million car-related accidents annually, with human error responsible in around 95 % of cases. AVs possess the potential to make roads drastically safer and better.
KPMG's 2020 rank assessed countries' degree of preparedness and openness to autonomous car or truck technology, and their progress in making driverless cars possible. The consultancy viewed each country's public policy on AVs, its history of technology and invention, infrastructure and customer acceptance.
The UAE was placed in the very best 10 for the third year in a row, ranking prior to the UK and Denmark but after Singapore, holland, Norway, the united states, Finland, Sweden and South Korea on the index.
The UAE scored highest among the 30 countries on measures of change readiness for new technology infrastructure and portable data speeds, and also the readiness of people to embrace driverless cars. In addition, it rated third on a way of measuring the efficiency of its legal program in challenging regulations.
The country's concentrate on developing smart technologies will play a significant role in the adoption of AVs, Ravi Suri, global brain of infrastructure finance at KPMG in the low Gulf, said.
The UAE is continuing with its strategy of earning 25 % of transport autonomous by 2030, a maneuver initiated in 2016.
“The UAE continues to remain steadfast in its resolve to go towards autonomous vehicles,” Mr Suri said. “Granted its strong fascination in AI, blockchain, 5G and maintaining good-quality roads, they are on the way to doing it.”
Source: www.thenational.ae
