Within the science, research, and innovation side—the innovation side, definitely—we all laugh about autonomous vehicles, but in that last leg of delivery, going back to the labour and the issue around transportation and not having enough truck drivers, as an example, there are current tests under way in Europe that are looking at that final leg of delivery using autonomous trucks. Regulatory changes that would enable the delivery of some of these new technologies have the potential to help, but it's early in the game to understand how much support that could provide the industry within the narrow window of delivery of product.
On November 1st, 2016. See this statement in context.