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Planning for Disruption: Second self-driving conference set for April
Toronto, Ontario — April 6, 2017 — The Conference Board of Canada has announced it will hold a conference on autonomous vehicles (AVs) on April 19 and 20 in Toronto, Ontario. This is the second such conference to take place in Canada. Collision Repair magazine provided extensive coverage of the first conference held in 2016. […]
April 6, 2017
The first Automated Vehicles conference was held April 19 and 20, 2016, in Toronto. The Conference Board of Canad has just announced the second conference in the series, set for later this month.
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The Autonomous Report: Canada lags, Israel jumps ahead and we may see a flying car by 2020
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 12, 2017 — Making news in the autonomous vehicle (AV) space this week is a report that Canada is “dead last” in the race towards driverless cars, a new algorithm that may allow AVs to merge seamless with human-controlled traffic, a discussion on how Israel is becoming a […]
February 12, 2017
A Velodyne LiDAR sensor on a vehicle at Blackberry QNX in Ottawa. QNX is one of the few companies in Canada working autonomous vehicle tech.
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The Autonomous Report: Self-drivers will bring more congestion, insurers must plan for transitions and AVs raise questions about the future of mass transit
Toronto, Ontario — November 13, 2016 — This week in automated vehicles (AVs), we look at how AVs are impacting urban planning, changes insurers will have to make to coverage, and how Canada lags behind when it comes to spending on AV development. – A press release from the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of […]
November 13, 2016
A Google self-driving car on exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
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Legislative framework still needed for autonomous vehicles
By Dylan O’Hagan   Peterborough, Ontario — May 2, 2016 — Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are coming at some point.  It could be as soon as the year 2020 according to Barrie Kirk, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE), but currently there is little to no legislation in place […]
May 2, 2016
Google started the white-hot hype around driverless cars, but technological barriers notwithstanding, experts say a legislative framework is still needed before the vehicles can be made available to the public.
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Autonomous vehicle conference: ‘no such thing as a crashproof car’
By Jeff Sanford   Toronto, Ontario — April 19, 2016 — This week sees the first ever Canadian conference dedicated to automated vehicles (AVs) kicking off in downtown Toronto. Collision Repair magazine is in attendance at Automated Vehicles: Planning the Next Disruptive Technology taking place at One King West Hotel & Residence.    Automated vehicles, […]
April 19, 2016
Canada's first conference on autonomous vehicles kicked off in downtown Toronto today. Watch for more reports from staff writer Jeff Sanford.
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