2021 saw commercial driverless trucking become a reality, occurring on both highways and surface streets, carrying real freight on real roads. However, the road is long, there is much more to do. In this session, autonomy developers and their commercial partners will discuss current operations and the opportunities and challenges ahead.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Bishop Consulting provides strategy and partnership development in the domain of intelligent, connected, and automated vehicles, advising automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and tech firms.
Current clients span auto-makers, sensors, AI, automated trucking, automated buses, and infrastructure owner-operators. BC advises government agencies around the world as well.
Mr. Bishop serves as 2nd Vice Chair of the American Trucking Association’s Automated and Electric Truck Study Group.
He is founder and chair of the International Task Force on Vehicle Highway Automation, which held its 24th Annual Meeting in 2021.
Prior to establishing Bishop Consulting in 1997, Mr. Bishop was Program Manager for Vehicle-Highway Automation at the USDOT Federal Highway Administration, where he was government lead for the National Automated Highway Systems Consortium.
He holds engineering degrees from Auburn University and Johns Hopkins University, plus an M.A. Transformational Leadership and Social Change from Tai-Sophia Institute.
