8. Autonomous vehicle deployment

8.1 European roadmap and use cases

In the early 2000s, most researchers agreed that the year 2020 would see our roads and streets run by numerous fully automated vehicles (the equivalent of today's level 5). In France, the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing even published a collective work entitled La Route Automatisée: un scénario périurbain in which a scenario of automated vehicles, travelling in platoons, was explored from a technical, safety and socio-economic point of view. Based on the laws of kinematics and dynamics, it demonstrated that...