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. […]
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 […]
The Autonomous Report: Recommendations for Canadian AV developments and OEMs ‘cannot wait’
by Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — July 29, 2016 — The autonomous vehicle space continued to generate hype and heat this week, including a statement from Mark Rosekind, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), that OEMs “cannot wait” until the technology is perfect before deployment. – We start off this week with […]
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 […]
Autonomous conference: driverless cars will be ‘radically disruptive’
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 20, 2016 — Canada’s first conference dedicated to automated vehicles took place in downtown Toronto this week. Please see “Autonomous vehicle conference: ‘no such thing as a crashproof car’” for the start of coverage of this landmark event. A sponsor of the event, the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA), […]
Autonomous vehicles may lower collision rates by up to 80 percent
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 4, 2016 — The era of driverless cars and trucks is coming fast. Is your organization prepared? For those looking to keep up with the emerging trend of automated vehicles (AVs) the Conference Board of Canada will host the first Canadian conference on AVs, this coming April 19 […]
Autonomous Vehicle technology ‘coming like a freight train’
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 10, 2015 — Activity in the automated vehicle (AV) space is accelerating, rapidly. The Canadian Automated Vehicle Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE) is dedicated to researching, tracking and analyzing its development. CAVCOE has recently released some juicy tidbits for those interested in the development of AVs. The head of […]
Public acceptance ‘very high’ for automated vehicles
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — August 6, 2015 — Canadian AV expert Susan Spencer, Senior Associate at the Canadian Automated Vehicles Center of Excellence (CAVCOE), recently travelled to Ann Arbour, Michigan, for the Automated Vehicle Symposium, the key conference for those interested in the emerging automated vehicle (AV) market. Spencer brought back many interesting […]
Cyber security, potential impacts the hot topics at AV Symposium 2015
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — August 5, 2015 — The Automated Vehicles Symposium is an annual event designed to advance the deployment of self-driving vehicles. This year’s event, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, drew over 900 people from various industries involved with driverless cars. The keynote address was delivered by Chris Urmson, head of […]
