Late June saw completion of the fourth Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Course (Curso de Especialización en Vehículo Autónomo y Conectado), organized by the Spanish Automotive Professionals’ Association (Asociación Española de Profesionales de Automoción: ASEPA) in collaboration with the University Institute for Automobile Research (Instituto Universitario de Investigación del Automóvil: INSIA-UPM).

The 50-hour course is divided into two modules: one dealing with the autonomous vehicle and the other with the connected vehicle. The former takes in both hardware and software aspects and involves practice runs on test tracks. The latter delves into the connected vehicle’s technical aspects, taking in not only communication systems, but also applications, services and cooperative systems, again with test runs.

The course was given by 13 experts in these future specialties, including researchers, academics, representatives of the main firms and the most advanced brands in this field of autonomous and connected vehicles. In the words of ASEPA itself, it was possible to hold the course again thanks to “the excellent reception” of the three previous occasions.

Sara Gutiérrez, manager of GMV’s automotive business unit, collaborated once more in the course, taking one of the sessions. This session dealt with different vehicle-to-vehicle communication application cases, giving details of a wide range of connected-vehicle services where GMV is inputting its wealth of experience.

The qualification for completing the course will be the academic certification of the Instituto Universitario de Investigación del Automóvil (INSIA-UPM).