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Hello and a warm welcome to this podcast series on the topic of mobility

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listen in on the thought-provoking and stimulating content shared on this

podcast today. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. This is Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

And this is Alexa St. John, Tech and Suppliers

reporter for Automotive News.

We are of course here at CES for the fourth of five special podcast that we're doing on the scene so to speak.

Pete Bigelow will be joining us later on in the show.

But first, Alexa, you have snagged the biggest guest we've ever had on this podcast.

Can you tell us about it?

Sure.

Well, earlier today I was able to have a great conversation with the U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine

Chow. Now she was here at CES this week for a keynote event. She was actually

unveiling the U new AV 4.0 plan.

It's basically a guidance to get 38 different agencies and departments across the country on the same page about autonomous vehicle technology,

new advancements with this technology.

And as you know Leslie Leslie there are so many different

players and stakeholders in this space it's something new every day we've seen

so many of those players here at CES and so you, according to Secretary Chow, the goal is to, you know, make this much more consistent

across the board in terms of approaches to AV technology.

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