European self-driving car company Vedecom Tech and Israel’s Karamba Security said on Monday they are partnering in developing fully autonomous cars that will be deployed for limited use in certain European cities within the coming year.
Vedecom say the completely autonomous vehicles will be launched starting late this year for commercial use by municipalities in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands.
Karamba’s systems will protect the car from possible attacks on external communications between vehicles and surrounding infrastructure, as well as the car’s internal electronics. “This marks the industry’s first production of cyberattack-secured, commercially-available automobiles,” the companies said in a statement.
Vedecom Tech are a commercial subsidiary of Vedecom Public Foundation, whose members include Renault, Peugeot, and Valeo. The first vehicles will be deployed in Versailles, said David Barzilai, Karamba’s executive chairman. They will be “short-haul” cars available for tourists and will drive on about 7 km of specially-assigned lanes.
