[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":201},["ShallowReactive",2],{"switcher-blog-pareja":3,"art-regulate-the-future-or-build-it-motogp-lesson-for-europe-en":6},{"en":4,"es":5},"\u002Fen\u002Fblog\u002Fregulate-the-future-or-build-it-motogp-lesson-for-europe\u002F","\u002Fes\u002Fblog\u002Fregular-el-futuro-o-construirlo-leccion-motogp-europa\u002F",{"id":7,"title":8,"author":9,"body":10,"date":185,"description":186,"extension":187,"image":188,"meta":189,"navigation":190,"pareja":191,"path":192,"seo":193,"sin_cta":190,"stem":194,"tags":195,"__hash__":200},"blogEn\u002Fen\u002Fblog\u002Fregulate-the-future-or-build-it-motogp-lesson-for-europe.md","Regulate the future or build it: what MotoGP can teach Europe","Paco Cubel",{"type":11,"value":12,"toc":175},"minimark",[13,17,22,30,34,37,44,47,50,56,59,63,66,69,72,75,79,82,88,91,94,100,103,106,112,116,119,122,125,130,134],[14,15,16],"p",{},"There's a lesson from MotoGP that we believe Europe should be paying very close attention to. And it's not really about motorbikes — it's about who gets to build the technology we'll all be using for the next twenty years.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"test-analyse-perfect","Test, analyse, perfect",[14,23,24,25,29],{},"For decades, the Japanese manufacturers dominated motorcycle racing. Honda and Yamaha had a very distinctive development philosophy: ",[26,27,28],"strong",{},"test, analyse, perfect — and never put a technology on the bike until they were reasonably sure it worked",". It was a slower, more conservative approach, but a tremendously solid one. And for many years, it worked.",[18,31,33],{"id":32},"fail-fast","Fail fast",[14,35,36],{},"Then the European brands started doing things differently.",[14,38,39,40,43],{},"Ducati, Aprilia and KTM embraced a far more aggressive philosophy: ",[26,41,42],{},"develop, test as early as possible, take solutions to the track even before they were ready, get it wrong, gather data, fix it and try again",".",[14,45,46],{},"Out of ten ideas, maybe six didn't work. But they tried them.",[14,48,49],{},"While one side was still making sure a solution was correct before putting it on track, the other had already raced three different versions, failed with two of them, and learned from all three.",[14,51,52,53,43],{},"And then something interesting happened: as MotoGP became more technologically complex and started evolving faster, ",[26,54,55],{},"that ability to iterate turned into an enormous advantage",[14,57,58],{},"The European brands kept closing the gap until they ended up overtaking the Japanese. Today it's Honda and Yamaha who are trying to change the way they work to win back the ground they lost.",[18,60,62],{"id":61},"the-parallel-with-europe","The parallel with Europe",[14,64,65],{},"And at Atenea Systems, we can't help seeing a parallel with what we're doing in Europe.",[14,67,68],{},"We're living through what is probably one of the greatest technological accelerations in history. AI, robotics, chips, operating systems, autonomous vehicles, new devices…",[14,70,71],{},"The United States and China are both doing the same thing: developing, testing, failing, improving and shipping again. Over and over, at a staggering pace.",[14,73,74],{},"Meanwhile, Europe seems far more concerned with making sure every new technology is perfectly regulated, controlled and boxed into a framework before allowing it to be developed and adopted at scale.",[18,76,78],{"id":77},"regulation-isnt-the-problem","Regulation isn't the problem",[14,80,81],{},"Regulation isn't the problem. Of course we need rules.",[14,83,84,85,43],{},"The problem appears when we need the rules, the controls and the safeguards to be all but settled ",[26,86,87],{},"before we dare to move at all",[14,89,90],{},"Because regulating takes time too. And while Europe debates what can be done, how it can be done and under what conditions, others are developing, testing, getting it wrong, fixing it and testing again.",[14,92,93],{},"By the time we've finished deciding how a technology ought to work, they may already be several generations into building it.",[14,95,96,97,43],{},"And that's how you end up with the world's finest legislation on artificial intelligence, digital platforms, operating systems — technologies that, quite simply, ",[26,98,99],{},"are no longer yours",[14,101,102],{},"Europe runs the risk of becoming the equivalent of MotoGP's Japanese manufacturers: excellent engineers, deep expertise, money and decades of experience… trapped in a model that worked perfectly when the world moved more slowly.",[14,104,105],{},"In a world that changes slowly, making sure you never make a mistake can be an advantage.",[14,107,108,109,43],{},"In a world changing at this speed, ",[26,110,111],{},"taking too long to make your mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all",[18,113,115],{"id":114},"learning-from-ducati","Learning from Ducati",[14,117,118],{},"Maybe Europe should learn something from Ducati: it's not about giving up on rules, or doing things without any control.",[14,120,121],{},"It's about understanding that, sometimes, to lead a technological revolution you have to accept that some things will go wrong, learn fast, and try again.",[14,123,124],{},"Because if we wait until the future is perfectly regulated before we build it, others will build it instead.",[14,126,127],{},[26,128,129],{},"And we'll be left regulating it.",[18,131,133],{"id":132},"references","References",[135,136,137,147,154,161,168],"ul",{},[138,139,140],"li",{},[141,142,146],"a",{"href":143,"rel":144},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.motorsportmagazine.com\u002Farticles\u002Fmotorcycles\u002Fmotogp\u002Fwhy-motogps-japanese-brands-are-so-far-behind-and-what-honda-needs-to-do-to-catch-up\u002F",[145],"nofollow","Why MotoGP's Japanese brands are so far behind and what Honda needs to do to catch up — Motor Sport Magazine",[138,148,149],{},[141,150,153],{"href":151,"rel":152},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.motorsportmagazine.com\u002Farticles\u002Fmotorcycles\u002Fmotogp\u002Fducati-domination-unprecedented-in-77-years-of-motogp\u002F",[145],"Ducati domination: unprecedented in 77 years of MotoGP — Motor Sport Magazine",[138,155,156],{},[141,157,160],{"href":158,"rel":159},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.the-race.com\u002Fmotogp\u002Fhonda-aprilia-motogp-technical-directors-romano-albesiano-fabiano-sterlacchini\u002F",[145],"Honda signs Aprilia's tech director in seismic MotoGP move — The Race",[138,162,163],{},[141,164,167],{"href":165,"rel":166},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.the-race.com\u002Fmotogp\u002Fyamaha-v4-motogp-engine-change\u002F",[145],"Yamaha commits to dramatic MotoGP engine philosophy change — The Race",[138,169,170],{},[141,171,174],{"href":172,"rel":173},"https:\u002F\u002Fcommission.europa.eu\u002Ftopics\u002Fcompetitiveness\u002Fdraghi-report_en",[145],"The Draghi report on EU competitiveness — European Commission",{"title":176,"searchDepth":177,"depth":177,"links":178},"",2,[179,180,181,182,183,184],{"id":20,"depth":177,"text":21},{"id":32,"depth":177,"text":33},{"id":61,"depth":177,"text":62},{"id":77,"depth":177,"text":78},{"id":114,"depth":177,"text":115},{"id":132,"depth":177,"text":133},"2026-08-21","For decades, Honda and Yamaha ruled MotoGP by never racing anything that wasn't fully proven — until Ducati, Aprilia and KTM overtook them by testing, failing and fixing faster. Europe is facing the same crossroads with AI, chips and robotics: if we wait until everything is regulated before we dare to build it, someone else will build it for us.","md","\u002Fog\u002Fog-default.png",{},true,"regular-el-futuro-o-construirlo-leccion-motogp-europa","\u002Fen\u002Fblog\u002Fregulate-the-future-or-build-it-motogp-lesson-for-europe",{"title":8,"description":186},"en\u002Fblog\u002Fregulate-the-future-or-build-it-motogp-lesson-for-europe",[196,197,198,199],"Opinion","Regulation","AI","Europe","fbIg6Pvkx1L-oElUrTKQ-_pT3qE5LpnAVctbnrcF744",1787312492799]