Ian Webb
CEO
Roads Australia
Conference Day One: Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Tuesday, July 31st, 2018
3:00 PM Expert Panel Discussion: Getting the Community Onboard- Scepticism, Expectations and Ethics
Consumer trust in the concept of autonomous vehicles has seriously eroded in the wake of a few high profile and some fatal, autonomous car crashes.
While statistics and initial testing of AV suggest that its wide adoption would decrease vehicle related fatalities and keep drivers, passengers and pedestrians safer, the scepticism that surrounds AVs makes their phasing in a challenge
This panel will explore:
· Whether/ how the community understands what is coming
- Developing consumer trust through trials and manufacturers taking responsibility with insurance and warranties
- Government policies hindering adoption of AVs
- Taxes
- No incentives for consumers
- Regulation
- Who determines values/morals that form the basis of programming
Panel Members:
Ian Webb- CEO, Roads Australia
Dr Brett Dale- Chief Executive, Motor Trades Association of Queensland
Anna Sawyer- Manager Road Safety, RAC
Grant Pearce- Head of Product, Personal Lines, QBE
4:10 PM Mobility as a Service or Mobility as a Business?
Governments around the world manage roads and maintain them purely on a “cost recovery” basis. In developed countries all this may change within the next fifteen years. New business models envisage a world in which huge fleets of autonomous vehicles replace the need for private car ownership. This questions our assumptions about government ownership and management.
If governments continue to maintain and price roads as they do now, this may quietly transfer a community benefit into a subsidy for commercial companies. How should we manage roads when the goal posts are moving?