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Hi everybody,

welcome to shift, a podcast about mobility.

I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter to the Automotive News.

Joining me on the podcast today, I'm pleased to welcome back,

Autonomous Vehicle Consultant, College Professor, an all-around mobility expert,

Salika Josiah Talbot. Salika and I are joined by SkillFusion CEO Elena Farnsworth,

and together the three of us are going to discuss the

politics and policy of transportation and mobility at a time that there's a fork in

the road at least in the imminent future, and that is, of course, the upcoming election.

How might either incoming administration set policies that promote innovation that affect the zero emission transition and prepare

the workforce for automation and electrification, stay tuned.

But first I've got a few housekeeping items in lieu of headlines this week.

I want to call your attention to a project that we've just completed at Automotive News

examining the increased role of artificial intelligence across design,

manufacturing, selling, essentially across the entire auto industry.

My colleague Lonnie Ilyph wrote about Tesla's strategy shift

to using generalized AI in automated driving

and its humanoid robot platforms.

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