AD_MAGAZINE_343

7 AutoData | April 2018 By Vicente Alessi, filho Suggestions, criticisms, comments, offenses and the like for this column can be directed to the email vi@autodata.com.br Disclousure/Volvo boulevards or alleys, autobahns or the shorty road that arrives in Rio das Pedras, SP. Traffic signs, traffic lights, the white stripes of asphalt play a fundamental role so that the autonomous ones exist, along with sensitive sensors, very powerful trackers and a whole dance of alphabet soups so that a vehicle leaves from here and arrives there without human control beyond that human control unless the one exercised on our smartphones. In other words: the necessary infrastructure corresponds to the same as the first world, the world of rich countries. WHICH CLOTHES? 5 Unofficial calculations expose that to transform only the state of California into territory of 100% autonomous possibilities dollars will be required at least to the amount of a hundred billion. That is to say: the transformation is really expensive, including in the first world. So tell me which clothes we’ll wear to use the autonomous around here? Here, they seem to ignore it, just rain so that the conventional traffic light on the corner goes down and stay three weeks waiting for maintenance. WHICH CLOTHES? I hear, and deafen myself, that the future belongs to the autonomous vehicles, certainly driven by some kind of energy - and I believe so too. I believe that this is going to happen, another revolution in the way that man has moved since when he was still running all over the plains of Africa today. Here in these Brazilian lands there are those who anticipate the novelty arriving early tomorrow, or so briefly that we must prepare ourselves immediately. And some say that all the knowledge obtained so far can be thrown out: everything has changed, they argue. Everything is different now, they say. WHICH CLOTHES 6 There is, of course, another discussion that can be vital: does the Brazilian society even require autonomous vehicles for tomorrow? And at the price of what? Probably, say some scientist friends, if all goes well with the country - with its technological evolution, with the formation of thousands and thousands of engineers and physicists, skilled people, with a fair distribution of wealth that eliminates poverty – something about two generations we have some condition of being autonomous with respect to mobility. In the meantime we’ll use hybrids with alcohol and electric plug-ins - and we’ll be pretty in the parade according to our possibilities. WHICH CLOTHES? 2 I do not like the idea that accumulated knowledge will be replaced like this, so suddenly. Whoever threw away knowledge was that personal described by the film Fahrenheit 451, of 1966, work of François Truffaut from the original of Ray Bradbury. But they say that, in the light of the wonderful future that unfolds there, we are just ignorant. And they say, you see, that the masters of knowledge are those of youth: they are the ones who now hold the keys to the gates of eternity and the breath always mentholated at the expense of their consumption... habits. WHICH CLOTHES? 3 I prefer less fussy reasoning. Everything will happen, yes, but the pace of news in countries above the Equator line, except portions of Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia, will be much faster than in the others - clearly located above the Equator the rich countries and, below, the poor ones. Us. WHICH CLOTHES? 4 Autonomous vehicles imply the radical transformation of the roads,