U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx Discusses Washington’s Work on Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx spoke during a summit for millennial entrepreneurs hosted by The Washington Post this week, and took a few moments to discuss connected and autonomous vehicle technology.

Foxx said that there are different debates behind connected versus automated cars, and that he expects that converging the two technologies is the true future of transportation.

Foxx said Washington is working on a set of laws and guidelines to pave the way for both technologies.

“We want to see both technologies move along, and we [the federal government] want to do the best we can to help them,” he said.

Watch video of Foxx’s comments on The Washington Post’s website.

Also recently, Foxx announced that the Department of Transportation’s field testing into allowing vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and WiFi communications to share the DSRC spectrum should be completed by the end of the year.