Mr Burns said modernising existing laws would promote business confidence and innovation, while establishing appropriate protections. “There are 700 barriers to implementing automated vehicles in Australia in terms of the regulatory framework,” he said. “So there’s a huge space to just enable us to exploit that opportunity, when we are sure the tech is finally there and safe.” Mr Burns also argued for a co-ordinated risk-based approach to oversight that would enable a focus on specific-use cases, while lifting various regulators’ capabilities. “The type and level of risk and harms associated with use of a machine vision system used in…