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Thursday, February 8, 2018
Miller Thompson Cybersecurity Blog - On January 29, 2018, the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications (the “Committee”) released a report titled Driving Change: Technology and the future of the automated vehicle (the “Report”), which highlighted key regulatory and technical issues related to driverless and automated... More
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Mobile Europe - The proof-of-concept (PoC) trial used the latest 5G New Radio standard, ratified by 3GPP in December, to allow communication from a vehicle to a base station and other vehicles. The test tested the technology's effect on platooning, an automated road system with a convoy of vehicles controlled through a network. The... More
Cabin Radio - The Northwest Territories is trying to balance a short-term economic need for new highways with a plan to accommodate radical change in the vehicles that use them. At the back end of January, Canada’s various transport ministers released a joint statement pledging a strategy on automated vehicles and a drive to... More
Monday, February 5, 2018
Collision Repair Magazine - In this week's Autonomous Report, the Senate of Canada releases a major report on automated vehicles. Several of this week's news reports covered a 78 page report from the Senate of Canada on self-driving vehicles released by the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications. It was presented at a... More
Automotive News - Self-driving car concepts are a dramatic departure from today's cars, envisioning living rooms on wheels with rear-facing seats and massive infotainment screens. Even if parts of these futuristic design experiments get lost on the cutting room floor as autonomous driving develops, it's clear that vehicles will need to undergo a... More
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Canadian Business - International cybersecurity company Trend Micro is setting up a new Toronto research lab for “ethical hackers” in collaboration with Canadian telecom giant Telus Corp. Trend Micro - a global company that originated in California but relocated its headquarters to Tokyo - said it expects the new office to house about 100... More
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Insurance Business Mag - The federal government has finally released its self-driving automobiles report, noting that while the technology is slowly becoming a reality, Canada still has much to prepare... More
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Driving - The federal government has finally released its report from the Standing Senate Committee on Transportation and Communications on self-driving cars and it’s, well, not so bad for government work. Driving Change: Technology and the future of the automated vehicle is the result of almost two years of research and the testimony of... More
BT - Self-driving car technology is moving forward at a remarkable level, with more and more autonomy expected in on-road vehicles over the next five to 10 years There’s now a generally-accepted industry standard for the levels of autonomy that any individual car can provide, which runs from the ‘no autonomous features’ level 0... More
Financial Times - While companies ranging from Google offshoot Waymo to established businesses such as Toyota or General Motors work on self-driving passenger cars, truck manufacturers have been quietly developing similar technology.“Driverless trucks could be a regular presence on many roads within the next 10 years,” says José Viegas,... More
Monday, January 29, 2018
The Record - OTTAWA — A Senate committee is urging the federal Liberals to take control of the development and testing of self-driving cars on Canadian roads before governments fall too far behind the technological revolution. In a report released Monday, members of the Senate's transport committee describe how different departments and levels... More
CTV News - The Manitoba government is set to bring forward legislative amendments that would pave the way for testing and using autonomous vehicles on provincial highways. Manitoba Infrastructure Minister Ron Schuler made the announcement Monday. “The rapid technological advances being achieved by carmakers in regards to autonomous vehicles... More
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