Shailen Bhatt delivers a new national V2X deployment plan

Shift: A podcast about mobility

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4.8 • 31 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The administrator of the Federal Highway Administration details a new U.S. DOT plan for rolling out a long-simmering technology capable of saving thousands of lives on American roads. Further, he discusses the ways artificial intelligence and infrastructure can accelerate safety improvements and reduce the more than 40,000 traffic deaths that occur in the U.S. every year.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Gentex Corporation.
0:03.7	Gentex is a long time supplier of electro-optical products for the global automotive,
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0:23.2	Hi everybody,
0:25.0	welcome to shift.
0:27.0	podcast about mobility.
0:31.0	I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.
0:36.2	Joining me on the podcast today, I'm pleased to welcome Shaylin Bot, the administrator of the Federal Highway Administration
0:43.0	and perhaps the chief architect of a new US DOT plan
0:47.2	to roll out the so-called VITA-X connected car technology
0:51.4	across the nation.
0:54.4	More on that in a minute. First, my colleague Molly Boegon joins us for a look at this week's headlines from the
0:58.4	mobility world.
0:59.4	Molly, how are you today?
1:00.9	I'm doing well, thanks, Pete. How are you?
1:03.6	Doing great.
1:04.6	Hey, Molly, battery fires are back in the news.
1:08.0	There is a big EV fire in a South Korean parking lot earlier this month that incinerated about a hundred other vehicles and took eight hours to put out.
1:18.4	What is the latest on that front and how are people wrangling with this big problem that you wrote about this week?
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