Montréal Associate Rémi Slama examines how provincial regulations are affecting the deployment of autonomous vehicles in Canada, in an article published in The Logic.
In the piece, he explains that differences in definitions, authorization regimes, and operational requirements across Canadian provinces—along with how these interact with the federal framework and diverging approaches in the United States—create a particularly complex and overlapping regulatory landscape for autonomous vehicles.
“Even definitions for terms such as ‘driver’ or ‘autonomous vehicle’ can vary between provinces, which adds to the confusion,” Slama said. “Without a unified national regulatory framework, a self‑driving truck travelling through a province with relatively permissive testing rules could be required to switch to manual operation when crossing into another.”
