A programme to reshape the Malaysian automotive industry is slated for a roll out by June 2016. The Megascience 3.0 Roadmap 2020-2050 was announced by the president of the Malaysia Automotive Institute (MAI) Madani Sahari at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show, the New Straits Times reports.
The main focus of the roadmap will revolve around safer and efficient “driver-free, driving choice”. This, in short, could translate to self-driving cars for Malaysia. “In the roadmap, there is a component for the autonomous vehicle to be driver-free,” Madani said.
“Aside from that, it is also about aligning it to this new wave of technology that we need to bring into Malaysia across the supply chain, to allow vehicles to be autonomous.” he added. Madani envisaged that like electric vehicles, self-driving cars would be part of the Malaysian automotive scene, a decade from now.
“I foresee in the next 10 years this is something that we can greatly look forward to where autonomous vehicle is concerned, just like how it was for electric vehicles when it was first introduced five years ago,” the president said.
On that note, however, Madani said that for the roadmap to be successfully carried out, a change is needed. “In the roadmap, there is a component for the autonomous vehicle to be driver-free, while taking into account all aspects pertaining to policies, infrastructure, the laws and even mindsets that needs to be looked, at as well as the technology,” he stated, adding that a regulatory framework needed to be defined before all else.
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Ya ya ya
Bla bla bla
Low safety requirements, no standard ABS or ESP, now want autonomous?
Please remove such high taxes, APs and such, then only Malaysians can dump their old cars.
Shok sendiri, gaji buta.
malaysia only eligible corruption system, not even dream about autonomous with in klang valley road.
Just cannot tahan when i see this guy.
Malaysia only technology is corruption… All the system working through corruption and only corruption with ultimate nasi lemak management… Muahahaha!
Madani, sort corruption first within Proton, within MITI, then come here and talk big please
Empty promise or “blind vision” that from cabinet or Government ministers…
Goyang kaki, overseas trip, make syiok sindili statements few times per year=fat paycheque….wat happen to EEV plan abandon dy??
Whatever MAI
Ok, how many billions do you need this time?
HUH? LOL!!!
We dont even have a efficient public transport and talk about this?
butt-head always talk drama and future, pocket a billion but outcome is worth nothing.
build a proper road first esp in the east
MAI go fix protons power window problem first, 30 years & still same issue !!! Don’t talk about autonomous driving when you cannot even comprehend the technology!! Cannot even provide good & effecient public transports to the public, roads & highway forever under construction & hopeless protong cars being produce with old tech and you want to put a road map for Autonomous Driving wasting billions more of our tax payers money !!!!
Toyota has power windows recall you dun bash pulak, topkek
Just piss off those mat rempit,toll ,ap,apa apa saja….hybrid free tax…..please focus on what we need……
Im getting sick of MAI,your face and your name.period.
Autonomous system in cars will go cuckoo and commit suicide on Malaysian road habits, what with kopi O licences and Mat Rempits breaking all traffic rules. The unpredictabilty of Malaysian road users make the Autonomous system scared to go even with green lights.Just hope it doesn’t take the passengers with it when it does so. Maybe it will make a good cyber-psychology case study and make Malaysia famous with the headlines “Car kills self and took 4 with it”
lol
that autonomous tech won’t be able to survive long enough to go through our many potholes and uneven roads..
Well whether they like it or not, or we like it or not, this new tech will change the game just like how cars took over horse carriages and created highways and how commercial flights led to the construction of aviation infrastructure in every corner of the world in a very short period of time. It’s one of those unavoidable things.
Technology and performance differentiate ‘real players’ and the ‘so-called pretenders’.
Ada add-on function mengelak lubang?
MAI itself is a giant cesspool, overflowing everywhere (everyone knows the shitty automotive situation in MAL) …..
Now want to talk about autonomous??? is this one of MAI of wet dreams???!
–face palm–
Didn’t managed to land on the moon, already aiming for Jupiter.
Even basic thing like Euro 5 compliance, ESP, VSC, ABS is not mandatory in Malaysia yet want to have roadmap for self driving cars. Let alone items like hybrid or electrical vehicles is still a long way to go.
Rrrrrrright….. never going to happen with the current geniuses we have in cabinet
While i would normally be critical of them, I believe what MAI is saying is they want Malaysian infrastructure and our supply chain to be ready when autonomous cars start to become the norm, sort of like how telcos and distributors had to get ready when smartphones became more ubiquitous. They’re not saying they want to develop autonomous cars…
LGE says” I no need go nippon oso I alredi got autonomous driving, its called drebar. Somemore during raining got umbrella come out for me to keep dry. This is bloody waste of rakyat money!
With my autonomous car I dun need to even find parking, it will just park beside hydrants, on double line, at newly painted blue boxes. I dun need to care. If pipu complain just say its his fault, not mine. At most I just fire him and hire another one. As long as not from India and try to suicide me like my friend.”
instead of being so ambitious, why not try to improve the safety of all cars in malaysia first? for instance, make the vehicle stability control system mandatory on all cars sold?
And why are you implying that they must choose one over the other? Can’t they do both?
Some of the junctions in Malaysia are barely suitable for human drivers, much less computers. Not to mention the computers need to take into account the “power of Malaysian pedestrian palm” and motorcycles cutting from the blind-side. The journey will be full of emergency stops.
Lets admit you are going to award this billion ringgit infrastructure project to a RM2 crony company; which after 10 years, will result in nothing but empty talk.
Daer Mai..Madani
Making noise from Japan won’t make yourself be respected by Malaysian.
You prove nothing to us..except your proven empty talk in many years.
Gomen..pls abolish MAI tak malu..
Hahaha..autonomous rely on satellite signals will fail big time here, becoz “no signal” everytime rains like the infamous Astor
Same talk, same promises, fat salaries but nothing change. APs to grey importers still stay. Honda not assembling new hybrids in the country. Prices of cars going up. Bolehland always getting outdated models. Go and learn from the koreans if the japs are giving nuts to you.
Please make electric car affordable.
berapa ramai yang teringin nak pakai autonomous system? yang pakai saga 1985 pon ramai lagi, they don’t even think to buy a new car because every aspect of vehicle ownership in this country will be not a winning situation for users. please enjoy ur leisure atonomous ride around ur syok sendiri track in putrajaya