Transport committee  That's a great question and a huge topic. It's not an easy answer. I'll come back a bit to what I was saying earlier. If we can define some specific goals—for instance, in terms of smart cities, even defining the elements of a smart city.... I'd like to share with the group that

Transport committee  So do I, and I apologize if I rambled on.

Transport committee  Yes. The short answer is yes, absolutely, vehicles are going to have so many censors. At one of the talks that I did recently where I was invited to speak, I used the example of potholes. Vehicles hit potholes. What if we could gather that information and send it back to a smart

Transport committee  For me, the ultimate benefit is safety. There are a number of benefits that come along with that from a community perspective. As I mentioned, in Canada, I think roughly 2,000 people have died in traffic accidents. Fatalities in the U.S are at about 33,000. Globally, it's over a

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  We haven't specifically, but I can point you to some studies that have taken a look at that. For instance, for efficiencies, there was a program in Chicago where they predicted a 20% efficiency gain.

Transport committee  Okay, I'd be happy to do that.

Transport committee  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

Transport committee  That's a very good question. At the heart of everything we do and have done for three decades now, if you think of how we're integrated in the infrastructure, safety and security are absolutely core to what we do. If you tie that to BlackBerry, this is where BlackBerry has a real

Transport committee  We have work to do in that area.

Transport committee  Traditionally, vehicles were mostly mechanical and unconnected. Then they moved to some drive-by-wire functionality, where it's not mechanical. Today when you apply the brakes, for instance, it's not something mechanical being applied from the brake pedal to the actual brakes. It

Transport committee  Yes. In fact, we export most of our technology today. If you think about the technology, there are no automotive car manufacturers, if you like, in Canada. Most of our technology is exported.

Transport committee  Absolutely, on the foundation, the core software, yes, exactly. Again, a tangible example is the market share that we have.

Transport committee  The nature of vehicle ownership is changing and the importance that society puts on vehicle ownership is changing. It's a demographic shift. To your point, you're going to see vehicles that are on average used about one hour per day today. If you do the math, it's about one hour

Transport committee  That's a very interesting question. The notion of a smart city, to be honest, is still being defined. Things like the smart cities challenge, for instance, are going to help evolve the definition of a smart city and help push technology and some of those use cases to help us unde