Montenegro

We have just been on holiday to Montenegro.

Montenegro is an amazing country with spectacular scenery, amazing medieval villages, rugged mountains and some wonderful beaches.

Montenegro is now gearing up for an influx of tourists with loads of hotels being built off the back of the increased publicity it has been getting in the travel press recently.

The trouble is though that it doesn’t have the travel infrastructure to cope.

We found this out as there is one main coast road and if you time it wrong you can spend hours trying to get short distances. Crossing the border to Croatia can take hours if you hit peak times.

There are no trains along the coast and the buses get caught in the same congestion.

This might sound like a country that would embrace driverless cars. Drivers would no longer sit stewing at the wheel of their cars waiting for the traffic to move.

Drivers wouldn’t need to travel at anti-social times either.

There is a problem though.

Whilst I was there I only spotted 3 electric cars and these had German plates on them. The electric vehicle revolution has yet to hit Montenegro.

In fact the new car revolution has yet to hit Montenegro.

The vast majority of the cars on the road there are at least 10 years old. We had 2 taxi’s one was a Mazda 6 (Series 1) and the other was an old Ford Focus Estate. The hire cars were also old cars as well.

It’s sort of good to see a nation where cars appear not to be the status symbol they are elsewhere in the world.

So for a country that looks like it would benefit from driverless cars based on my current observations I reckon they will not get them until they have been established elsewhere for at least 10 years which might be a shame.