Sneak Preview into Hogan Lovells White Paper: “The Road to Autonomous Vehicles”

Sneak Preview into Hogan Lovells White Paper: "The Road to Autonomous Vehicles”

Dr. Patrick Ayad, Partner and Global Leader Mobility and Transportation, Hogan Lovells
Susanne Schuster, Associate, Hogan Lovells

Recent Hogan Lovells White Paper promotes a holistic and flexible regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles

Why this White Paper?

We are advising both traditional and emerging global players in the automotive industry and are increasingly dealing with legal issues of the future. One of our focus areas is the regulatory environment for automated and connected vehicles, a field in which we are closely monitoring the newest legislative developments.

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‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’ IS NOT AN OPTION

DAY OF THE VISIONARIES

Lutz Meschke, Deputy Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer and IT, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG

Smartphones are superceding cars as status symbols, electronics are replacing drivers at the wheel, combustion engines are becoming obsolete … for a sports car brand like Porsche, surely these trends must be horrific? Not at all, says board member Lutz Meschke.

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A HACKER’S NIGHTMARE

DAY OF THE VISIONARIES

Orit Shifman, Chairman, CEO & Founder of OSR Enterprises

Autonomous driving involves acquiring, processing and sometimes storing vast data volumes. Yet this ‘sensitive’ data also needs to be effectively protected against unauthorized access. IT professional Orit Shifman believes this ambiguity gets far too little attention.

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CONNECTED CARS NEED CONNECTED VALUE CHAINS

DAY OF THE VISIONARIES

Lars Reger, Chief Technology Officer Automotive, NXP Semiconductors

Today, a luxury automobile contains around 200 million lines of software code. Describing the importance of electronics in modern automobiles, NXP Technology Director Lars Reger said: „That makes it the most complex technical device you can buy.“

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LEFT BEHIND, NOT AUTONOMOUS?

DAY OF THE VISIONARIES

Bernd Osterloh, Chairman of the General and Group Works Council and Member of the Presidium of the Supervisory Board, Volkswagen AG
Roland Villinger, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) annd Chief Digital Officer (CDO), AUDI AG

Vision and reality don’t always go hand-in-hand. Likewise, digitalization and e-mobility encounter very real obstacles during implementation. Will feasibility issues cause these ‘future topics’ to fail? Works Council boss Bernd Osterloh certainly isn’t naming a phase-out date for ICEs at VW, for example, saying customer demand would decide that.

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FORGING SMART PARTNERSHIPS

DAY OF THE VISIONARIES

Dr. Akif Askar, Head of Business Development, Strategy and M&A, TRATON AG
Andrea Rexer, Head of Companies and Markets, Handelsblatt

When automotive managers talk about the breakthrough in electromobility, they usually mean cars. The heavyweights – the 40-tonne long-haul trucks – are rarely mentioned. But at the Handelsblatt Auto Summit.

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FULL CHARGE AHEAD THROUGHOUT EUROPE

DAY OF THE VISIONARIES

Dr. Michael Hajesch, CEO, Ionity

What do red kites have to do with battery electric driving? „They’re incredibly efficient and can travel very long distances across borders. That makes them the perfect heraldic symbol for Ionity,“ explains Michael Hajesch, head of a European consortium that aims to make long distances feasible for electric vehicles.

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A WORLDWIDE RACE

DAY OF THE VISIONARIES

Andrea Rexer, Head of Companies and Markets, Handelsblatt, talks to Handelsblatt foreign correspondents
Sha Hua, Asia
Martin Kölling, Japan
Britta Weddeling, Silicon Valley

With new competitors disrupting the mobility market, alternative propulsion systems being pushed to varying extents in different regions of the world and intercontinental trade restrictions looming, it pays more than ever to take a look at the bigger picture.

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START-UP ELEVATOR PITCH – NEW IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY

DAY OF THE STRATEGISTS

MODERATION AND KEYNOTE:
Franz Rother, Chief Editor, Edison
Peter Fuß, Senior Advisory Partner Automotive, EY

JURY:
Jens Monsees, Vice President Strategy Digitalization, BMW Group
Werner Preuschoff, Director Project Management Electrics/Electronics, Daimler AG

6 AUTOMOTIVE-START-UPS:
Tobias Wagner, CEO, ChargeX
Beres Seelbach, CEO, ONO Motion
Dr. Christoph Gebele, Co-Founder, Geospin GmbH
Ingo Dietterle, CEO, Hybrid Lidar Systems AG
Fabien Compère, CEO, Zouzoucar
Lyubov Artemenko, Co-Founder, COO, Go To-U

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