Coalition for Reimagined Mobility

🚗🔒 The Coalition for Reimagined Mobility was proud to participate and engage with industry leaders at the Auto-ISAC 2024 Annual Summit last week in Detroit. ➡️ ICYMI, check out our Deputy Director Ashley Simmons’s key takeaways as they underscore the importance of a robust, collaborative approach to automotive cybersecurity, from managing an expanding attack surface to preparing for policy shifts and embracing the transformative role of AI. Together, we’re working to secure the future of mobility and champion innovation that prioritizes safety and resilience. We must continue building a connected, secure automotive ecosystem. #AutoISAC2024 #Cybersecurity #SecureMobility #Innovation #Collaboration #ReimaginingMobility

📢 ICYMI: Vertical takeoff and landing (#VTOL) aircraft are inching closer to commercial operations. This week the Federal Aviation Administration released final regulations for electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles, marking the first new aircraft category since helicopters in 1940! 🚁 The highly anticipated set of regulations outline the qualifications and training standards for instructors and pilots operating powered-lift aircraft, and sets operational guidelines like minimum safe altitudes, energy reserves for an emergency landing or visibility requirements for safe flight.   The new category for powered-lift aircraft combines features of both airplanes and helicopters and can reimagine passenger transport, cargo delivery, and emergency aid. ReMo commends the FAA for taking action. The new performance-based framework is a critical step towards the safe and widespread integration of Advanced Air Mobility into the national airspace, giving the industry a practical pathway to flight. 🌍🛫 Link to the FAA press release can be found here: https://lnkd.in/g7-yFEYG #AAM #aviation #advancedairmobility #evtol #futureflight

The future of aviation is taking flight with Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)! 🌍✈️ 🚁 The rise of VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) technology is transforming how we move people and goods, paving the way for sustainable, efficient travel. To keep up, the Federal Aviation Administration is working on new vertiport design standards, in the draft Engineering Brief (EB) 105A, to ensure safe integration into our airspace. It's an exciting time for innovation, but to stay ahead, we need swift action on infrastructure and regulatory frameworks. Our latest post by ReMo's Dominic Mathew links to our technical comments and dives into the need for continued collaboration, and frames how with the right standards the U.S. can continue to lead in shaping the next generation of aviation and the future of mobility. ✈️🌱 Read the post here: https://lnkd.in/eMbfwNFV #AdvancedAirMobility #VTOL #Innovation #Aviation #Sustainability #Mobility #EVOTL #Standards

This week the Coalition for Reimagined Mobility urged California’s DMV to adopt a regulatory framework that distinguishes between light and heavy-duty autonomous vehicles, addresses logistics access gaps, and embraces evidence-based testing requirements for safe operations. It is necessary to ensure the regulatory environment allows AVs and other advanced transportation technologies to foster and contribute to the state’s economic growth and we hope these comments help to inform the DMV's thinking around autonomous heavy-duty trucks and the future of mobility. https://lnkd.in/ehgzwZvf #autonomousvehicles #AVs #autonomoustrucking #heavyduty #California

 ⏰ Breaking: In response to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on how to address the national security implications of connected vehicles with foreign components, ReMo's Executive Director Avery Ash calls on lawmakers to take immediate and concrete action that would address the national security implications of connected vehicles and do so without undermining the United States’ ability to lead in the development and deployment of the technologies that will define the 21st century of the automotive sector.  Read our full statement here: https://lnkd.in/gRw5_hhP #connectedvehicles #nationalsecurity #supplychains #china #transportation

ICYMI: The Coalition for Reimagined Mobility (ReMo) celebrated the U.S. Department of Transportation’s announcement last week that it is expanding its FLOW: Freight Logistics Optimization Works Initiative to include the Port of Oakland and the The Northwest Seaport Alliance, bringing all major West Coast ports into this unique public-private partnership to improve data sharing, reduce congestion and pollution at ports, and strengthen the resilience of America’s supply chains. https://lnkd.in/g2K4nRXm ReMo’s policy research on freight digitalization has demonstrated the role that data sharing and establishing data exchange standards across the freight sector can: 🌎 meaningfully reduce carbon emissions by 22% and eliminate 2.5 billion barrels of oil per year by 2050 💰 drive a 6% cost reduction through operational efficiency gains ⛓ ensure global supply chains remain secure and resilient in the face of natural and geopolitical shocks. Achieving this will require coordination and cooperation between the private and public sectors, as well as across logistics companies. That’s why we’re excited to see this important U.S. DOT initiative expand to cover 95% of all inbound container traffic on the West Coast. Read more about ReMo’s work on data sharing here: https://lnkd.in/eBdq8apC

The U.S. Commerce Department will soon put out rules that would ban Chinese software in autonomous and connected vehicles.  🤝 This comes on the heels of a White House/State Department joint meeting that convened key allies, partners, and industry leaders to assess and find solutions to the national security risks posed by Beijing infiltrating our growing digital transportation infrastructure. https://lnkd.in/enDYZifK ⚡️As SAFE’s Coalition for Reimagined Mobility noted in comments to Commerce ahead of its investigation into the matter this spring, it’s important that the forthcoming rulemaking strikes the right balance between bold actions to protect our security and understanding that industry can’t decouple overnight. 🚗 Advanced vehicle technologies will define the automotive and transportation sectors for the next several decades and the United States must act to maintain, and in some cases reclaim, our position as the global leader in this industry. We’ll be keeping an eye out and commenting. Stay tuned and read ReMo’s comments: https://lnkd.in/ggzrn7ys

Thought-provoking insights from ReMo's Dominic Mathew on the future of 🛩 Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and the progress industry is making in #eVOTL innovation. Check them out! 👇 #FutureofFlight

TOMORROW: Allanté V. Whitmore, Ph.D., Director of the AV Initiative with SAFE’s Coalition for Reimagined Mobility, will take part in a virtual panel discussion, hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center, on how autonomous vehicles can promote mobility, equity, and bridge transportation gaps. Register today: https://lnkd.in/gUMngJ42 Tuesday’s panel will feature keynote remarks from Representative Darren Soto (D-FL). Then, Dr. Whitmore will join Finch Fulton, Government Affairs and Policy Advisor at K&L Gates and Board Member at the Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE), and Brian Woolfolk, Principal at Swan Creek Strategies for a thought-provoking conversation moderated by Pete Bigelow, Director of Technology and Innovation Coverage at Automotive News. Don’t miss it.

Big news from one of our Coalition for Reimagined Mobility Commissioner companies! Congrats Gautam and the whole Gatik team! Exciting stuff and an important step toward delivering the impact of automated driving systems at scale!