The Belgian city of Anvers, alongside four other sites within the EU, will be starting work on a project in the coming months which aims to test autonomous driving on public roads from 2019, reports Gazet van Antwerpen. Ahead of these trials, Anvers has received funding to equip two sections of motorway with sensors designed to guide connected cars. This preparation work, which will be carried out later this year and into 2018, will enable the testing of autonomous vehicles between 2019 and 2020, although a driver will probably still be present behind the wheel.
The other four sites chosen to participate in the project are motorway lanes in the vicinity of Lyon (France) and Vigo (Spain), and between Rotterdam-The Hague (Netherlands) and Nuremberg-Munich (Germany).
