Energy Magazine May 2021 | Page 60

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“ The vision for this technology is to make our cities less passive . Cities need to become smarter and ready to interact with citizens , however they choose to travel .”

KUNAL CHANDRA VICE PRESIDENT , SHARED AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY SIEMENS MOBILITY are many thousands of potential variants of scenarios , but a new driver does not need to experience them all before getting a learner ’ s permit . What we are saying is that there should be a reasonable set of unsafe and practical scenarios that must be navigated virtually for an autonomous vehicle to earn its learner ’ s permit .”
Smart Cities Outside of the Middle East - Neom in Saudia Arabia and Masdar in the UAE being recent examples - there are very few cities that can be built smart from the ground up . In most cities across the globe it ’ s a case of brownfield development notes Chandra .
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