Taxi industry wants supervision of robotaxis throughout Europe

Representatives of taxi companies from eleven European countries called for local supervision of self-driving taxis during a meeting of the European Radio Taxi Association (ERTA) in Paris, pitane.blue reports. According to the industry, autonomous vehicles used as taxis should be subject to the same rules as driver-driven vehicles and supervised by the competent local authorities. The Netherlands was not represented at this meeting.

Taxi transport in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe has traditionally been locally organized and regulated, while the development of self-driving vehicles takes place across national borders. This raises the question of how municipalities and provinces can monitor technology that is developed and tested elsewhere, including in cities in the Rijnmond region where taxi transport is a sector requiring a permit.