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The Driverless Revolution: What Next?
- The Future of Autonomous Vehicles in New Zealand
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Autonomous vehicles have the potential to change transport, and therefore our neighbourhoods, towns and cities dramatically in the future. We must prepare and plan for them to ensure we end with positive, community and well-being enhancing outcomes.
- Professor Simon Kingham, Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Ministry of Transport
The development of air and land-based autonomous technology offers a significant economic opportunity for New Zealand. Trials are already underway in Canterbury, New Zealand, where geographic and industry conditions offer significant advantages as test environments.
Autonomy technologies offer an opportunity to transform sectors of the economy either impacted by disruption or where there is opportunity for significant growth beyond traditional activity. The manufacturing and engineering sectors are two examples where this transition is occurring. This transformation is possible at a regional and national level, proving the opportunity to contribute to economic development in regional centres.
A focus on autonomous technology also leverages existing strengths and capability within tertiary institutes, offering students and staff opportunities to use autonomy to solve challenges facing other industries such as agriculture. Enabling regulations further support the advantages New Zealand already has as a pilot environment.
Joanna Norris, Chief Executive Officer, ChristchurchNZ
Aerospace and future transport is a compelling opportunity for Canterbury. National and international companies are already working in our region to testbed their technology. We can build on existing capabilities to provide a world-class platform for atmospheric and terrestrial R&D into the 2020s and beyond.
Mark Rocket, Chair of the Christchurch Aerospace Centre
The challenges we face with AV regulation are, at a basic level, similar to those arising in the context of any other emerging technology: The key to create a safe yet innovation-friendly regulatory environment is to understand the technology in question, as well as the ethical, economic, and social implications of the legal choices we make.
Dr Olivia J. Erdelyi, Lecturer, Canterbury Law School, Specialising in AI Regulation
A fascinating and informative examination of the history, current state of play, and future landscape of autonomous vehicles presented in a cogent and concise manner. Written by two experts in their respective fields, this paper sets out the map for a road yet to be travelled, as well as demonstrating how New Zealand is well-positioned to facilitate the growth and development of this technology. A great read for anyone interested in the future. - Tom Pils, LLB, BComm-Accg, The Drone Lawyer
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Integrating autonomous vehicle technology with law and policy.
Facilitating the autonomous vehicle’s (AV) advance from the test track to commercial utilisation involves a coherent and prescient regulatory framework. Absent the latter, investors may be reluctant to participate and those seeking to advance AV technology, will, of necessity, journey to those regions where commercialisation and regulations coalesce to foster growth in the AV sector.
For local, regional and national governments the firm offers a strategic analysis to developing a regulatory framework that is not only agile enough to facilitate AV testing and development but also emphasizes safety for those using public spaces. For those developing AV industries for commercialisation the firm offers a way forward when navigating an AV regulatory framework.
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Consultancy
Autonomous Vehicles
Land
Air
Sea
Transportation, in whatever context, has always exhibited a tension between speed and safety. Complicating that tension is the crafting of an agile and coherent regulatory framework as significant transportation sectors prepare for an autonomous future.
Our firm’s deliverables are produced by applying our unique and combined experience in law, entrepreneurial endeavours, and active involvement in developing autonomous vehicles in conjunction with an ongoing collaboration with our clients.
Land Transport & Delivery
Possessing autonomous vehicle industry experience means that our firm provides insights that are absent from nearly all other consultants or policy makers. Our insider’s understanding of the AV industry also means our firm can deftly address the regulatory concerns arising from the advent of both today’s and tomorrow’s AVs.
Air Transport & Delivery
The air transport industry provides some of the most relevant guidance for how we can manage the advent of autonomous vehicles in our public areas. Demonstrating high levels of autonomy, airplanes utilize multiple redundant systems, especially a pilot and co-pilot. Beyond these redundancies, aviation regulators oversee a safety system with initial and on-going certifications for pilots, airplane maintenance and data safeguarding. Applying these principles to the drones and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is sensible. Further enhancing this already robustly regulated and reviewed sector is our firm’s role as we prepare for UAVs and for when they will be monitored remotely - beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS).
“The Mobility of tomorrow will be fundamentally different. We see four major trends radically changing the automotive industry: Connectivity (C), Autonomous Driving (A), Shared & Services (S) and Electric Mobility (E). They are summarized under the acronym CASE.”
- Dr. Claus Ehlers, Daimler AG, Report: Mobility of the Future: Connected, Autonomous Shared, Electric, 30th International AVL Conference “Engine & Environment”, June 7th - 8th, 2018, Graz, Austria