As I said, I'm passionate about the definition of infrastructure and the potential of infrastructure.
In terms of how I would view it, again it's a lot about connectivity. At its basic level it's about connectivity. Can we have traffic lights talk to vehicles? Can we have first responder vehicles talk to an infrastructure? I'm just using the words “talk to” because I'm not going to get into cellular technologies and all that. It's not important at this level. It's really about whether I can get reliable and smart communication.
The opportunity there is to sponsor and get involved in joint initiatives within Canada, obviously, but also in collaboration with other countries, to enable standardization from a communications perspective. If we can define a standard for vehicles to talk to vehicles or for vehicles to talk to infrastructure, if you can enable that fundamental technology, then all of a sudden we can apply artificial intelligence. We can apply better use of the infrastructure that we have and the vehicles that we have on the road, and the benefits you are going to see are going to follow.
From my perspective, at this stage of where we're at in the disruption, it is very much communications and standards as it pertain to communications, because the automakers are collaborating. Automakers used to be pretty much in silos and not talking to each other. Because the nature of the car is completely changing, you see this collaboration. They are also open to it, which is great.