For a discussion about self driving cars and how they might affect the u. S. Transportation system and to some of the implications for Public Policy. This is going to be moderated by matthew at policy analyst for the Cato Institute. It should be starting life shortly as participants take the stage. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] [background sounds] good afternoon Everyone Welcome to the Cato Institute my name is Matthew Feeney jaime policy analyst here. Im very excited to welcome you all here for what i hope will be an interesting discussion on self driving cars. Its an interesting topic because we are at a stage we are asking when the questions not if when it comes to the widespread use of the vehicles and we have three exits to talk about it. Before we begin i would like you to turn off your cell phones so we will not be interrupted. I would also like to say that we will be giving a session at the end after all the speakers have had their turn
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Transbay, a major capitol projects that the voters are improving and helping us to implement those up and down the state. And those are hosted in santa clara and linking transportation through the future through technology and on the new way and innovative ways of managing the system, including the development of the managed lanes on the freeway network. We did hear from secretary, brian kelley and the members of the California Department of transportation as well as many other panelists to talk about the different ways that the counties and cities are delivering projects and engaging the public to insure the public ininvolvement early on and the major infrastructure plans such as high speed rail and it was a great country to Exchange Information on what the other counties are doing and thinking of for 2016, several other counties have expressed the likelihood that they will go forward with the revenue measures in the bay area as well as agencies such as bart and hope and working close