Hello,

about mobility. My name is Pete Bigelow. I'm a reporter at the Automotive News and your host. Very excited to bring you this episode today on which we're going to hear a good bit

about the safety potential of both connected and autonomous vehicles.

Sterling Anderson, co-founder of Aurora Innovation,

joins us to discuss the company's big plans

to acquire LIDAR company Blackmore.

We'll dig into that acquisition, Aurora's progress building a

self-driving system, and its overall testing philosophy, which cuts against the

idea you need to drive millions of miles to verify safety. But first today we'll turn our attention to

connected vehicle tech known as VITA X. On one hand it has the potential to

save thousands of lives on the road. On the other new developments in the federal government just

last week threaten its existence. Greg Winfrey, executive director of the

Texas A&M Transportation Institute, joins us right now to talk about the precarious

of Vita X and more. Welcome Greg. Howdy from Aggie land?

Greg we've been talking just a little bit about the promise of connected cars

specifically the safety benefits that a V2 V2 I or V2 everything sort of

technology might allow.

Can you set the stage for us a little bit?

How does this technology work and what is the potential of it?

Absolutely. So Connected vehicle technology has been under development via a global

participatory effort for at least 20 years.

It is a long lead time to get this kind of technology refined

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