Driverless cars are coming to Canada, and the safety numbers are making even longtime skeptics rethink their position. Lorraine Sommerfeld wrote the piece. She also used to tell autonomous cars to stay off her roads.

Sommerfeld talked to a tech analyst who put it plainly: you eventually have to leave the lab. Waymo is already in 12 US cities. Ontario has had a framework for autonomous driving experiments on the books for over a decade. Vancouver needs a law change. The groundwork, she says, is already there.

Her argument isn't that driverless cars are perfect. It's that drunk, high, distracted, and angry drivers are worse. When the data has been proving that for years, even someone who loves driving has to start asking harder questions.

Topics: driverless cars Canada, Waymo Canada, autonomous vehicles, road safety, self-driving technology

GUEST: Lorraine Sommerfeld | http://driving.ca/column/lorraine/waymo-driverless-cars-toronto-vancouver

Originally aired on 2026-05-11

Driverless cars are coming to Canada, and the safety numbers are making even longtime skeptics rethink their position. Lorraine Sommerfeld wrote the piece. She also used to tell autonomous cars to stay off her roads.
Sommerfeld talked to a tech analyst who put it plainly: you eventually have to leave the lab. Waymo is already in 12 US cities. Ontario has had a framework for autonomous driving experiments on the books for over a decade. Vancouver needs a law change. The groundwork, she says, is already there.
Her argument isn't that driverless cars are perfect. It's that drunk, high, distracted, and angry drivers are worse. When the data has been proving that for years, even someone who loves driving has to start asking harder questions.
Topics: driverless cars Canada, Waymo Canada, autonomous vehicles, road safety, self-driving technology
GUEST: Lorraine Sommerfeld |<a href="http://driving.ca/column/lorraine/waymo-driverless-cars-toronto-vancouver"> http://driving.ca/column/lorraine/waymo-driverless-cars-toronto-vancouver</a>
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-05-11

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