Remember when Europe built empires on breakthrough thinking?

Now it builds them on paperwork. Mountains of it.

Take autonomous driving tech as an example. Over in the States, certain systems have already logged billions of miles—statistically outperforming human drivers on safety metrics.

Meanwhile? Europe's still drowning in approval processes.

The continent that once exported the Enlightenment now exports... compliance frameworks. Ideas don't scale when they're buried under regulatory red tape. Innovation needs oxygen. What it's getting instead is suffocation by committee.

This isn't about safety. It's about speed. And right now, Europe's moving at the pace of a fax machine in a fiber-optic world.