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Ontario fails to attract applications for self-driving car plan

Ontario is a late-comer in developing test sites for autonomous driving technology compared with parts of the United States, where Alphabet Inc.'s subsidiary Google has been testing self-driving prototypes since 2009. (REUTERS)
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By:
Ethan Lou
July 07, 2016 05:00 AM

TORONTO -- Ontario's program to allow testing of self-driving cars on public roads has not received any applications since it launched Jan. 1, the Canadian province's government said on Wednesday, as a recent U.S. accident increased scrutiny of the technology.

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