Thank you, Madam Chair.
A witness on the previous panel pre-empted my question by describing the period when a horse overlapped with a car on the road. It's amazing that we're here talking about driverless cars.
I was reading a report by the U.K. House of Lords in 2017 entitled “Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: The future?”. From the report, the study discussed the transitional period when traditional vehicles would share the road with CVs and AVs. The report expressed concern that the effects of CVs and AVs sharing the road with traditional vehicles are not fully understood. It recommended that the U.K. government undertake mixed-fleet modelling to inform policy development.
My first question is this: what modelling work, if any, has been undertaken here in Canada to assess the impact of a mixed fleet of autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles on Canadian roads?