Transport committee  I'll just comment that I think the industry and governments are going to learn a big lesson from this fatality. It shouldn't have happened. Somebody did something. Somebody, I believe, made a mistake, and not all people are making those mistakes. We need to get to the bottom of i

Transport committee  A lot of deaths can be prevented with existing advanced technologies in existing cars, and there are many cars on Canadian roads that already have advanced driver assistance systems and collision detection technologies. Right now, they're mainly in high-end cars like Cadillacs, b

Transport committee  Not to trivialize it, but one thing it will do is hit the brakes a lot faster than any of us could. That's number one. Number two, to reinforce what Mr. Kirk has been saying, is that on average the accident rate will go down dramatically, because that's not the typical situation

Transport committee  The most interesting point about what you said is that we're moving to a different dynamic in the use of transportation. On the one hand, people are getting more deliveries to their homes; they're not going out shopping anymore. On the other hand, there's this tension between peo

Transport committee  Some autonomous vehicle designers and manufacturers, such as Waymo, have said they are designing their vehicles on the assumption that eventually there will be no supporting infrastructure. They must assume that if their vehicle can actually go anywhere—which is the long-term goa

Transport committee  Safety driver.

Transport committee  It's interesting because, as I said at the beginning, I believe that the technology is there to prevent an accident of this type from occurring. The visual sensors are present, the computer capabilities are present to interpret that data, the ability to brake the vehicle is prese

Transport committee  A driverless car is a much more complicated problem than a driverless airplane, because there's not a lot of traffic up there in the air. You're asking a very good question, and that's why it's going to take a very long time before we get to the point where, on the major streets

Transport committee  I slightly differ with my colleague Mr. Kirk on this point. I do believe that from the perspective of technology development, we've leapt ahead way further than we were even a year ago when we were testifying in front of the Senate. From that perspective, our AV sector is doing v

Transport committee  As I mentioned, I'm on the advisory committee to the Automated Vehicle Innovation Network for Ontario. I was at a meeting just last week and I was having a conversation with one of the folks from the Ontario government about what is attracting these 175 companies to invest in Ont

Transport committee  First of all I want to say that I agree with Barrie that the first step is to form this joint Transport Canada-ISED thing. We can then build on that to the national initiative that I'm talking about, but it should be led by that. This issue of governance and how this phenomenon i

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair and committee, for this opportunity to testify in support of your study on the issues related to automated and connected vehicles in Canada. As you may know, I also had the honour, along with my co-witnesses, of testifying on this topic at the Se