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13 AutoData | August 2018 list, which is part of the new automotive program: if it is not possible to produ- ce locally the tax is lower, but if some day someone raises the hand and says ‘Hey, I can do it’, the tax goes up and the companies choose: pay a higher tax or develop locally. Besides, the ex-tariff helps to know what is being imported and in what volume, and with this we will be able to know the moment that may be interesting to nationalize it, if it is economically viable. The process is inductive. That’s why I say Rota can’t be exclusively analyzed from the amount of investments in R&D point of view. It is much wider than that, it starts to organize the sector, to regulate it, to make things right, to stablish goals. Of course, with a responsibility of not incre- asing vehicles’ price so much. We have to give to society the condition to buy the vehicles, but there was a change with Rota, it is important. The engineers celebrated. there will be a schedule of safety items for trucks too: this segment has its own particular pace but it also has to evolve. That question about safety items, es- pecially for light vehicles, should have already been part of Inovar-Auto... This is one of the fundamental points of Rota: for the first time we point what we will have in safety equipment until 2030. It’s 2018, the car that will be launched in 2027 is not even being imagined yet but when they think of this car we will already knowwhich safety level that this vehicle will need to reach until then. This has an extraordinary value for those who project and plan. And there will be ano- ther schedule for assist technologies, which help the driver with involuntary lane change, emergency braking etc. But is it required to produce in Brazil? No, it can be imported. Although there is an interesting logic of the last tariff