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a weekly digest on energy, clean tech, and the environment. I'm Stephen Lacy. Welcome.

In our first installment for 2017, we're going autonomous.

For years, researchers have been working behind the scenes to improve autonomous vehicles, and all

of a sudden that work is playing out in a very public way. Top tech companies and automakers are testing new models on the streets

and regulators and city planners are trying to keep up with the pace of technological change.

This year will likely mark the beginning of the Commercial Autonomous Car era.

And that brings us to the theme of the show this week.

Will that era bring sweeping efficiency improvements to the transportation sector,

or will it result in a chaotic overcrowded hellscape for our streets?

As our guest will explain the decisions we make today will determine that fate.

In the second half of the show, we'll examine Uber's attempt to help city planners by releasing data,

and we'll have a brief retrospective on President Obama on his final week in office.

I'm joined as always by my co-host. It's been a while.

Hello, Catherine. Hi, happy New Year. You know nothing going on here in DC.

Yeah, it's a boring time over there. So it's going to be a stretch to find interesting things to talk about this year, huh?

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