According to a formal agreement signed on January 18, 2018, Ellex Valiunas will work together with the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University to stimulate the development of autonomous vehicles such as self-piloted aircraft and self-driving cars in Lithuania.
When signing the agreement, Ellex Valiunas Managing Partner Rolandas Valiunas stated that the best results could be achieved by the synthesis of science and business. “Today market conditions are determined by technological innovations and therefore I believe that our partnership will be not only of mutual use but it will also have a favorable impact on business."
According to an Ellex Valiunas press release, the first step in legitimizing and defining autonomous vehicles in Lithuania has already been made with the new law on regulation self-driving cars that came into force earlier this year. “But the law was adopted only for the purpose of testing such vehicles," commented Partner Dovile Greblikiene, "while a number of unresolved issues still remain to have full regulation of this sphere."
The agreement was signed by Rolandas Valiunas and the Rector of the University, Professor Dr. Alfonsas Daniunas, in the presence of Dovile Greblikiene, lawyer Arnoldas Puodzius, the Dean of VGTU Transport Engineering Faculty Olegas Prentkovskis, the Dean of VGTU's Antanas Gustaitis’ Aviation Institute Justas Nugaras, and Vice-Dean Linas Gelazanskas.
