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Something significant at the intersection of transportation, #safety and connectivity to report→ I was at U.S. Department of Transportation HQ for the release of the agency’s new ‘Saving Lives with Connectivity: A Plan to Accelerate #V2X Deployment.’ A big deal... and a major RESET moment in the long and winding road to get this lifesaving technology deployed. V2X (aka vehicle-to-everything) holds a lot of promise... but it’s been held back by regulatory uncertainty. Ahhh, yes... the dreaded regulatory uncertainty. But it’s true... calls for a policy and regulatory environment to support widescale V2X deployment (including from Alliance for Automotive Innovation) have gone largely unanswered. Until now. Some great leadership and lots of credit to Administrator Shailen Bhatt of the Federal Highway Administration and USDOT Research and Technology’s Dr. Robert C. Hampshire for getting this national strategy across the finish line. It tells me this: We can work as partners – government and industry – and use cutting-edge technology to SAVE LIVES. Read the national V2X plan→ https://bit.ly/3WPx800 NPR: U.S. presses the ‘reset button' on technology that lets cars talk to each other→ https://n.pr/4fT7DTW Watch my remarks on C-SPAN→ https://bit.ly/4dR55Uv
Thanks for your leadership as well. We need all the automakers to help us deploy this life-saving #technology at scale. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for your partnership John Bozzella and your continued commitment to advance #technology that can save lives for all road users!
President and CEO, TMMA
2moAgreed. Administrator Bhatt is one of the best this industry has to offer. I can almost hear the Administrator, and his Deputy Kristin White, repeatedly saying to USDOT, "stop telling me all the things we cannot do today and start telling me what we can do." If it is possible, they will get it done.