Wherever freight is being moved, entrepreneurs are developing and fielding automated solutions. This includes long haul trucking, short haul B2B ("middle mile"), logistics centers, agriculture, and industrial resource extraction operations. This presentation will provide a quick flyover of all the action, concluding with a series of "what to keep an eye on" topics as this very active space moves forward.
Speaker Biography
Richard Bishop, Principal, Bishop Consulting, has over 30 years of experience in the domain of intelligent, connected, and automated vehicles and how these interact with our transportation system and society, including automated cars, trucks, and robotaxis. He provides strategic consulting to automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and tech firms, as well as advising federal and state government agencies in the U.S. and abroad. He led Team Lux in the DARPA Urban Challenge and since then has “surfed the wave” of AV development, working with a wide array of Automated Driving System developers In addition to publishing articles regularly on Forbes.com, Mr. Bishop provides Automated Driving Industry Trends Reports covering ADAS in passenger cars as well as fully automated robotaxi’s and trucks (available at www.richardbishopconsulting.com). Prior to establishing Bishop Consulting in 1997, Mr. Bishop was Program Manager for Vehicle-Highway Automation at the USDOT Federal Highway Administration.
