Transport committee  I think it would be an advantage to have a smart city. I have to caution everybody in the room that these smart city ideas are new in the last couple of years, and they call for changes that would cost trillions of dollars. The city I come from can't fix its potholes, so I don't

Transport committee  When I talk about more congestion, I'm talking about more cars on the road. What would be absent would be parking. The expectation that I've drawn from my research is that parking would go up a little bit for a little while, plateau at some point, and then go down, but the actual

Transport committee  I think so, at some point, in the same sense that I can't take a bicycle onto a highway or that I can't take a horse on most streets. I know it's kind of a silly example, but it is the case that there was a 40-year period in which horses and cars were mixed. I'm expecting about a

Transport committee  All of my work says that car ownership would still be 25% of all vehicles at the best. There is no way that car ownership is going to go away completely. I actually think it will be fifty-fifty.

Transport committee  In the end, no, but in the interim, yes. There needs to be some degree of thought and separation in these first 15 or 20 years. One of the biggest risks is that we will build something that's going to be for 10 or 15 years that we then don't need anymore, so there is a double hit

Transport committee  Yes, those already exist. Those are called “level 3” in those five SAE levels. Level 3 is called “conditional automation”. You can turn it on, and it drives for you. When you don't want it to drive—for example, if you're in a place where it can't drive—then you turn it off, and y

Transport committee  I'm actually going to answer that even though I have no idea. That's not been studied in the sense that I could provide a reliable answer, but I will say that when you say “most”, we're talking about the point where our highways, for example, in Ontario—

Transport committee  We're going to be very fast on highways and we are going to have to be much slower in cities. Just for pedestrian and bicycle safety, I would say in cities we'll probably be slower than we are now.

Transport committee  No. I haven't really thought much about speeds, and the reason is that I'm just thinking mostly about social equity. My answer about slow is for safety.

Transport committee  At the very least, we need to do massive amounts of changes to our curbs. I would hope—and this is just a hope—that we would be removing street parking by then, “then” being 2040 or 2050, when a majority of vehicles will be automated. There would be no need for street parking. Th

Transport committee  Thank you. That is a huge problem. The solution is not to make it miserable to own your car; the solution is to make it wonderful to use a shared vehicle. There's a natural aversion to the sense of losing your car. I have a car, and I think from your question you have a car. T

Transport committee  The first thing we need to do is ask what the purpose is. Again, I'm focusing back on transit. Why do we have transit? What are our goals and reasons for it? It's not about how we go about it and how we did it before and how we can tune it, but why do we have it in the first plac

Transport committee  But we have to say how it's going to integrate. We can't wait for Tesla or Uber to tell us. We have to decide how it's going to integrate.

Transport committee  Then we have to put the regulations and motivations in place for it to happen that way, right? They'll build what you ask if that channel has been narrowed to that solution.

Transport committee  That's a good question, and the answer is quite involved. Very briefly, that accident had aspects of technology failure. There was no reason to hit a pedestrian. The technology is beyond running over pedestrians. There was something turned off or something not working. We're not