An expert panel that features a Waterloo Engineering professor released its report on the potential impact and key issues surrounding connected, autonomous, shared and electric (CASE) vehicles.
Convened in the summer of 2019 by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), the panel stressed there are pressing decisions required to achieve potential benefits from CASE vehicles including economic growth and cleaner, safer, more accessible transportation.
Krzysztof Czarnecki, an electrical and computer engineering professor who is co-lead of an autonomous vehicle pilot project at Waterloo, joined 12 other experts from the fields of engineering, industry, economics, environment, health, public safety, sociology and ethics on the panel.
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