AV? We’ll see…: CCIR report shows AVs on the horizon, insurance industry without a plan
Toronto, Ontario – As the automotive industry continues its journey toward fully-autonomous driving, a recent report from the Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators (CCIR) shed some light on the somewhat murky state of the insurance industry’s preparedness for this evolution. Drawing responses from industry stakeholders across Canada, CCIR’s report, entitled “Connected and Automated Vehicles and […]
EV/AV Report: January 25, 2021
Toronto, Ontario – In this week’s electric and autonomous vehicle report, Extreme Vehicle Battery Technologies Corp. plans to stand up to Tesla with their TITAN battery system, LeddarTech announced a partnership with German laser and lighting developer, OSRAM, and a Laval, Quebec-based transportation operator placed the largest single order of Lion Electric school buses ever […]
AV Report: Smart roads take drivers into the future
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 19, 2018 — In this week’s AV Report, constitutional issues around AVs, the mighty size of the market, an AV suitcase named the Fun Puppy 1, and much, much more. -An interesting quote from the recent Senate report on automated vehicles (AVs) comes from Ian Jack, […]
AV Report: GM could launch self-driving car next year; man ‘attacks’ autonomous vehicle
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 22, 2018 — In this week’s Autonomous Report, General Motor’s (GM) surprise announcement, Toronto’s AV study, Russia’s nuclear bomb-equipped underwater UAV, and much, much more. – This past Friday GM, the old symbol of corporate sluggish and bureaucratic sloth, surprised the industry when it distributed a press release […]
Nissan plans to launch autonomous car in 2020
BY CRM Staff Tokyo, Japan — October 27, 2017 — Nissan has demonstrated a prototype of its most advanced autonomous vehicle, and announced that it plans to launch the car for real-world use in 2020. The company tested the next generation ProPILOT technology on a modified INFINITI Q50 sports sedan on public roads in Tokyo. […]
BMW to invest in self-driving research and development
By Mike Davey Geneva, Switzerland — March 7, 2016 — This might seem odd for a company that has long billed itself as producing the “Ultimate Driving Machine,” but it looks like BMW is ramping up to enter the autonomous vehicle space. Klaus Froehlich, BMW’s board member responsible for research and development, told a reporter from […]
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 […]
