When your car moves without a driver, it suddenly begins to feel like a human and you even start talking to it. Will self-driving vehicles soon become part of everyday life? Will we be hopping into robot cars in the near future? In May, VTT organised a customer event, where people had a genuine opportunity to find out how it feels to travel in a driverless car. A ‘safety person’ was present during the demo situation, but his only task was to monitor how the robot car behaves

The smart district of Kalasatama has become the number one destination for international innovation tourists visiting Helsinki. In the last two years, the Kalasatama area has been visited by 1,500 experts interested in smart cities. These visitors, in a total of 98 groups, have come from all over the world, especially Europe and Asia. What’s garnered the most interest is the fact that nearly a third of the Kalasatama’s residents are participating in their district’s developme