The EU's "Now or Never" Moment on Autonomous Vehicles, Pierfrancesco Maran, Member of EU Parliament

Autonomy Insiders · Jun 17, 2026 · 37m · transcript

Almost nobody in Brussels is against autonomous driving. That is not the problem. The problem is that most policymakers treat it as a distant future, not a present priority. So the agenda slips while the US and China move.

Pierfrancesco Maran is trying to change that. He is the newly elected chair of the European Parliament's ENVI Committee, and before Brussels he spent thirteen years running mobility, urban planning and housing as a Milan city alderman. In December he hosted a Brussels conference on autonomous vehicles with more than 120 stakeholders from over 20 countries. He has called…