Transport committee  It's an interesting question, because we know from working with the car makers on putting V2X systems into the cars today that they don't bother doing it because they can't make money with it—

Transport committee  Can I carry on? Okay. It's almost a chicken-and-egg thing. A car maker can't sell this feature because there is no infrastructure. If there were infrastructure, the car maker could sell that feature, whereby you would have accident avoidance at a very congested intersection, fo

Transport committee  Specifically on the Charlie Miller hack that we're talking about, we're pretty intimately familiar with that hack.

Transport committee  It was a QNX-based vehicle, and the way I would describe it is that somebody left the door wide open. There was no security in mind at all in that vehicle. It was a wake-up call to the auto industry that a lot more had to be done.

Transport committee  No, no, there was very serious things that were done in this vehicle to leave the door open. I'm talking scripts that say “update me” with this. It was ridiculously open.

Transport committee  Yes, there is programming and then there is the methodology of how you put the system together, and cybersecurity is never going to be an absolute certainty. It's a cat-and-mouse game in which you will always be staying ahead in a technology, because we've seen vulnerabilities in

Transport committee  Yes, I think that the algorithms are going to be sophisticated enough to understand black ice, slippage of the wheels, etc. They'll be able to identify more quickly than you what's happening to the vehicle from a geometry perspective. It's also one of the reasons that I believe

Transport committee  From a monetization perspective, I think the bigger change in automotive, although we all talk about autonomous drive and automated drive, will be the change in the architecture of the vehicle. There's going to be an ecosystem built around the car. The best comparison is Android

Transport committee  That will be very interesting.

Transport committee  Why do you think Google wants to get into cars? It's about data. It's all about data. The OEMs know they can monetize it, but they don't know how yet.

Transport committee  It remains to be seen, but today Google and Facebook make all the money.

Transport committee  I completely agree there's a lot of talk about level 5 autonomous drive, but that's very far off, and 2030 is not when it's going to happen. Level 5 means go anywhere, anytime, under any conditions. The programs we're working on today are L-3 plus and L-4. These are typically 20

Transport committee  Yes. When I talk about the distribution, I'm talking about new cars sold in 2030.

Transport committee  No, I do. I have a short....

Transport committee  Chairperson, thank you for inviting BlackBerry to speak to you today about connected and autonomous vehicles. As this committee is aware, the automotive industry is undergoing a major transformation wherein a collection of computers, software, sensors, actuators, and connected