Author: Greg Rogers
USDOT Unveils Ambitious Multimodal Automation Initiative, Automated Vehicles 3.0
Mar 09, 2018 | Greg RogersMarch 9, 2018 Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation publicly announced the next phase of its bold initiative to encourage...
White House Frames AVs as an Opportunity for Economic Growth
Mar 02, 2018 | Greg RogersMarch 2, 2018 While much of the conversation around self-driving technology has revolved around the potential safety benefits, the...
Inside USDOT’s Campaign Against Drugged Driving
Feb 23, 2018 | Greg RogersFebruary 23, 2018 It has long been understood that there are three main factors that lead to most traffic deaths: alcohol, speeding,...
House Panel Examines NHTSA’s Automated Vehicle Initiatives
Feb 15, 2018 | Greg RogersFebruary 15, 2018 A lot can happen in a year. Last Valentine’s Day, House Energy & Commerce’s Digital Commerce and...
USDOT Accelerates Work on Automated Vehicles 3.0
Feb 15, 2018 | Greg RogersFebruary 15, 2018 The U.S. Department of Transportation is moving forward with the next iteration of its federal policy document on...
3 Ways that Cities Can Prepare for Automated Vehicles Today
Feb 14, 2018 | Greg RogersFebruary 14, 2018 Much of the attention to automated vehicle (AV) policies has often focused on the federal and state levels. But as...
Understanding NHTSA’s Voluntary Approach to Automated Vehicles
Feb 02, 2018 | Greg RogersFebruary 2, 2018 Over the past several years, collaboration with industry - rather than prescriptive regulations - has become the...
Senate Commerce Discusses Emerging Threats to Surface Transportation
Feb 02, 2018 | Greg RogersJanuary 31, 2018 As a response to the rise in international terrorist attacks involving multiple surface transportation modes, a...
Senate Commerce Convenes Field Hearing at Washington Auto Show
Jan 26, 2018 | Greg RogersJanuary 26, 2018 On January 24, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee held a field hearing at the Washington...
Senate Inches Toward Unanimous Consent on AV START
Jan 26, 2018 | Greg RogersJanuary 26, 2018 Two months after Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee chairman John Thune (R-SD) initiated the...
Trump Infrastructure Plan Outline
Jan 22, 2018 | Greg RogersThis is a 6-page summary of a much longer draft outline of President Trump's infrastructure plan prepared by the National Economic...
USDOT Launches New Data Initiative to Predict (and Maybe Prevent) Fatal Crashes
Jan 19, 2018 | Greg RogersJanuary 19, 2018 Data, as the saying goes, is the new oil. The private sector is constantly collecting and processing data to...