ONTARIO PUSHES AHEAD WITH AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES TECH PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

The Ontario government is pump-priming technologies for the development of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), as other provincial administrations in Canada and the federal government steadily roll out laws for testing and driving self-drive autos. The province’s Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN), part of the publicly-funded Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI), has played a key role. Ontario’s minister of economic development, job creation and trade Vid Fedeli explained to Wards how OVIN has been funding innovative CAV projects, on condition ...


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