Professor Baher Abdulhai, Director of the iCity Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems, was quoted in “Toll charges seen down the road once driverless cars take over” by Peter Nowak published by The Globe and Mail on September 24, excerpted below:
Experts believe one of the main side effects of the coming shift to self-driving vehicles will be the introduction of road usage fees. If the autonomous revolution unfolds as some expect, users could end up paying every time they get in a car.
“Everything in the future will be a paid-for service,” says Baher Abdulhai, director of the iCity Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems at the University of Toronto. “Regulation will need to be in place to price road usage.”