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Friday, February 23, 2018
Zawya - As emerging technologies continue to accelerate social and economic disruption on an unprecedented scale today, regional governments are harnessing the potential of these trends and integrating them strategically in their national agendas, experts... More
Carleton University’s Canada-India Centre for Excellence (CICE) and its partners in India have launched a new program to promote smart cities. The prime minister’s trip to India cemented the Canada-India Smart Cities Centre of Excellence for Capacity Building (CI-SCECB) project, which will tap into Carleton’s expertise in areas such as... More
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Wamda - Not too long ago, Tesla Model S and General Motors Chevy Bolt have been involved in two separate road accidents in California. Tesla bumped into the rear of a fire engine, and General Motors hit a motorbike trying to move from one lane to the other. Both cars were on auto-pilot model.... More
Intelligent Transport - The automotive industry has been heavily influenced by a few key technology trends that have the potential to change its current structure, ecosystem and value proposition. Increasingly, the industry is shifting away from the car-as-a-product to the... More
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Stratfor Worldview - Cities around the globe are increasingly striving to become smarter. As they take on 21st century challenges — including the strain of growing populations, social tensions and environmental issues — with shrinking budgets and failing infrastructure, urban areas are turning to advanced information and communication... More
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Global News - When it comes to hacking driverless cars, the nightmare scenarios are almost too frightening to contemplate. Imagine a terrorist group plowing a handful of cars – unmanned – into a crowd. Or someone forcing a school bus travelling down a highway off the road. Or hackers halting an entire fleet of... More
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Truck News – The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) says the Ontario Ministry of Transportation’s approach to automated vehicles and truck platooning is “measured and responsible.” However, in its submission to the province in regards to proposed amendments to Reg. 306/51, covering a pilot project for automated vehicles, the OTA also made... More
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
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