After the resounding success of previous courses, 18 May sees the start of another “Autonomous- and Connected-Vehicle Specialization Course”, organized by the Spanish Automobile 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 technical aspects related to the connected vehicle, taking in not only communication systems, but also applications, services and cooperative systems, again with test runs.

The course will be given by 17 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.

Sara Gutiérrez, manager of GMV’s automotive business unit, will be giving one of the papers, presenting 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).