a beautiful orchestration of code lasers
and machine learning driverless cars
offer us the promise of harmonizing our
congested streets reducing air pollution
and keeping our streets safe rescuing us
from our own human fallibility and error
software is being designed so at the
touch of a button these driverless cars
will know when to pick you up
where to deliver your groceries and what
time you need to be at work they’ll also
be able to pick up you and your friends
after a wild Saturday night out and make
sure you get home just okay parking will
be a thing of the past so will those
pesky parking tickets and not to mention
driving around and around trying to find
the perfect parking spot Freight will be
careening down our highways in platoons
driverless Lee making sure our online
orders get to us on time these cars will
be driving around creating beautiful 3d
maps of our world ladies and gentlemen
we’re at the frontier of a new mobility
revolution code is a new concrete lasers
are the new eyes on the road and data is
the new fuel now back in 2013 in my
formal role as deputy executive director
at the University Transportation
Research Center at Carnegie Mellon
University it’s a mouthful I have to
execute a 33 mile driverless car ride
from a suburb of Pittsburgh to the
Pittsburgh International Airport in that
car was the chair of the House
Transportation Committee and the former
secretary of PennDOT it went off without
a hitch five years ago since then I have
lost two of my nearest Indy
friends Andy Fisher very much later that
year in 2013 lost his life and then just
two years later my friend Susan to
senseless traffic fatalities I’m not
alone in my grief or my frustration
40,000 people lose their lives every
year in the US alone two traffic
fatalities 1.3 million the world over so
as an expert in this field autonomous
vehicles give me hope
we need them to fulfill their promise
but we need to make sure that they work
for all of us and I’m just not convinced
we even know what that means yet so
let’s go back to parking in New York
City 2017 they raked in 545 million
dollars in parking ticket revenue alone
it’s a lot of parking tickets it’s a lot
of money so on an individual level those
parking tickets are annoying at best but
on a grander scale they are funding our
roads and our infrastructure and making
sure that we don’t have to drive over
those potholes as a good friend of mine
and our in Mayor Peduto office likes to
say the way we fund infrastructure in
this country is toast and what about all
of those parking lots and on street
parking spaces that are just going to be
freed up because no one will have to
park these cars will just be driving
around and what about them are they just
going to be circling around and around
waiting for someone to call them and
those beautiful 3d maps of the world
we’re just handing over our data and our
privacy and the companies they don’t
they don’t want to know just how we’re
so how do we the people reap the
benefits of this technology without any
of the harms you see what’s become so
clear to me is that
well brilliant minds are designing
gorgeous algorithms there might be
missing one major piece of the equation
humanity so how can we the people make
sure that our social values are
orchestrated into this new revolution
tailored to our community needs
addressing such issues as affordable
housing and justice how can we be
ensured that our data is being balanced
with with privacy and that implicit bias
isn’t just being programmed directly in
to the code you see in my world when I
travel around the country I hear city
officials saying over and over again
they just need the data they want the
data from these companies and are they
sharing it I don’t think so
and our transportation system pass we
have let cards lead the design of our
system of our roads and our communities
this has cut off neighborhoods driven
massive suburbanization and created
inequities across the board but now we
have an opportunity to engage think
about it with me so we’re letting these
car companies develop their products on
our roads in the public right-of-way
using our data and using us as the crash
test dummies what if we demanded that
they shared that data with us or they
shared some of the insights that they’re
learning about us we the people and what
about those beautiful 3d maps of the
world what if we could use those in our
cities in the planning departments to
develop powerful insights about what’s
what if we actually just turned industry
on its head and we had community leading
this data nut what if we just said we’re
gonna collect it ourselves neighbor to
neighbor peer to peer and then we’ll
create community data Trust’s and
license that back to industry because
you know they might know where we’re
going and where we’re coming from using
their services but what they don’t know
is where we can’t go and why we can’t
get there and what about those parking
tickets that I was talking about and all
that revenue how are we going to fund
our streets
well what if cities could start ensuring
that autonomous vehicles paid for the
services and the resources that they’re
using what if we charge them per mile
and how are we going to creatively reuse
all that space all that real estate from
all of the open parking lots and on
street parking what if we decided to be
creative and have those address some of
our social ills like affordable housing
and food insecurity we could have
multi-level developments that are
affordable in our parking lots and we
could have roving fresh food carts along
the streets throughout the cities that’s
just two ideas and what about all those
cars again are they just going to turn
our streets into rivers of congestion
and pollution pollution and threatening
our safety well let’s see what’s
actually happening right now on the
federal level they’re a little uncertain
about this technology so they’re making
it only voluntary for these companies to
submit their safety plans to them for
review so what does that mean to you and
me that means we cannot be assured that
the cars that are on the road right now
have plans in place to ash or ensure our
safety what about safety standards
we have automotive industry safety
standards for things like brakes
seatbelts airbags developed in the 60s
we do not have any standards for the
software that’s being put in the cars
that are being put onto our roads what
if we the people required that a third
party how to review that data and that
code before it was put onto our streets
when you write a book you always have an
editor review it before you send it to
publication and so what our state’s
doing states are a little bit all over
the place and trying different things
out in California right now there does
not have to be a human in the driver’s
seat as long as you can control it
remotely and there’s someone licensed
somewhere in the car in Pennsylvania
they’re trying out a different
collaborative approach they’re working
alongside AV testers and trying to
create policy that does not hinder
innovation but that does ensure that we
are safe on our streets and on the local
level local governments are trying
different things and I’ll give you a few
examples in New York City in 2017 mayor
de Blasio launched the driverless future
challenge which partnered community with
design thinkers to reimagine how they
could use their streets and I’ve
mentioned some of those ideas already
this was a community driven process and
was very much driven by the mayor’s
office in partnership with the American
Institute of Architects and Fast Company
in San Ramon California a few miles
outside of San Francisco they’re testing
driverless shuttles that can have 12
people moving at a time that they first
tested on a closed track and when they
put them on public streets they allow
them to be operated by their public
sector partners it is exactly these sort
of public driven partnerships and
initiatives that we need to see more of
we need to see more trial and error and
more creativity this is how we can
ensure that our future is
designed driven by our values we the
people ultimately need to make sure that
as this revolution unfolds humanity does
not take a backseat thank you
[Applause] [Music]
and machine learning driverless cars
offer us the promise of harmonizing our
congested streets reducing air pollution
and keeping our streets safe rescuing us
from our own human fallibility and error
software is being designed so at the
touch of a button these driverless cars
will know when to pick you up
where to deliver your groceries and what
time you need to be at work they’ll also
be able to pick up you and your friends
after a wild Saturday night out and make
sure you get home just okay parking will
be a thing of the past so will those
pesky parking tickets and not to mention
driving around and around trying to find
the perfect parking spot Freight will be
careening down our highways in platoons
driverless Lee making sure our online
orders get to us on time these cars will
be driving around creating beautiful 3d
maps of our world ladies and gentlemen
we’re at the frontier of a new mobility
revolution code is a new concrete lasers
are the new eyes on the road and data is
the new fuel now back in 2013 in my
formal role as deputy executive director
at the University Transportation
Research Center at Carnegie Mellon
University it’s a mouthful I have to
execute a 33 mile driverless car ride
from a suburb of Pittsburgh to the
Pittsburgh International Airport in that
car was the chair of the House
Transportation Committee and the former
secretary of PennDOT it went off without
a hitch five years ago since then I have
lost two of my nearest Indy
friends Andy Fisher very much later that
year in 2013 lost his life and then just
two years later my friend Susan to
senseless traffic fatalities I’m not
alone in my grief or my frustration
40,000 people lose their lives every
year in the US alone two traffic
fatalities 1.3 million the world over so
as an expert in this field autonomous
vehicles give me hope
we need them to fulfill their promise
but we need to make sure that they work
for all of us and I’m just not convinced
we even know what that means yet so
let’s go back to parking in New York
City 2017 they raked in 545 million
dollars in parking ticket revenue alone
it’s a lot of parking tickets it’s a lot
of money so on an individual level those
parking tickets are annoying at best but
on a grander scale they are funding our
roads and our infrastructure and making
sure that we don’t have to drive over
those potholes as a good friend of mine
and our in Mayor Peduto office likes to
say the way we fund infrastructure in
this country is toast and what about all
of those parking lots and on street
parking spaces that are just going to be
freed up because no one will have to
park these cars will just be driving
around and what about them are they just
going to be circling around and around
waiting for someone to call them and
those beautiful 3d maps of the world
we’re just handing over our data and our
privacy and the companies they don’t
they don’t want to know just how we’re
so how do we the people reap the
benefits of this technology without any
of the harms you see what’s become so
clear to me is that
well brilliant minds are designing
gorgeous algorithms there might be
missing one major piece of the equation
humanity so how can we the people make
sure that our social values are
orchestrated into this new revolution
tailored to our community needs
addressing such issues as affordable
housing and justice how can we be
ensured that our data is being balanced
with with privacy and that implicit bias
isn’t just being programmed directly in
to the code you see in my world when I
travel around the country I hear city
officials saying over and over again
they just need the data they want the
data from these companies and are they
sharing it I don’t think so
and our transportation system pass we
have let cards lead the design of our
system of our roads and our communities
this has cut off neighborhoods driven
massive suburbanization and created
inequities across the board but now we
have an opportunity to engage think
about it with me so we’re letting these
car companies develop their products on
our roads in the public right-of-way
using our data and using us as the crash
test dummies what if we demanded that
they shared that data with us or they
shared some of the insights that they’re
learning about us we the people and what
about those beautiful 3d maps of the
world what if we could use those in our
cities in the planning departments to
develop powerful insights about what’s
what if we actually just turned industry
on its head and we had community leading
this data nut what if we just said we’re
gonna collect it ourselves neighbor to
neighbor peer to peer and then we’ll
create community data Trust’s and
license that back to industry because
you know they might know where we’re
going and where we’re coming from using
their services but what they don’t know
is where we can’t go and why we can’t
get there and what about those parking
tickets that I was talking about and all
that revenue how are we going to fund
our streets
well what if cities could start ensuring
that autonomous vehicles paid for the
services and the resources that they’re
using what if we charge them per mile
and how are we going to creatively reuse
all that space all that real estate from
all of the open parking lots and on
street parking what if we decided to be
creative and have those address some of
our social ills like affordable housing
and food insecurity we could have
multi-level developments that are
affordable in our parking lots and we
could have roving fresh food carts along
the streets throughout the cities that’s
just two ideas and what about all those
cars again are they just going to turn
our streets into rivers of congestion
and pollution pollution and threatening
our safety well let’s see what’s
actually happening right now on the
federal level they’re a little uncertain
about this technology so they’re making
it only voluntary for these companies to
submit their safety plans to them for
review so what does that mean to you and
me that means we cannot be assured that
the cars that are on the road right now
have plans in place to ash or ensure our
safety what about safety standards
we have automotive industry safety
standards for things like brakes
seatbelts airbags developed in the 60s
we do not have any standards for the
software that’s being put in the cars
that are being put onto our roads what
if we the people required that a third
party how to review that data and that
code before it was put onto our streets
when you write a book you always have an
editor review it before you send it to
publication and so what our state’s
doing states are a little bit all over
the place and trying different things
out in California right now there does
not have to be a human in the driver’s
seat as long as you can control it
remotely and there’s someone licensed
somewhere in the car in Pennsylvania
they’re trying out a different
collaborative approach they’re working
alongside AV testers and trying to
create policy that does not hinder
innovation but that does ensure that we
are safe on our streets and on the local
level local governments are trying
different things and I’ll give you a few
examples in New York City in 2017 mayor
de Blasio launched the driverless future
challenge which partnered community with
design thinkers to reimagine how they
could use their streets and I’ve
mentioned some of those ideas already
this was a community driven process and
was very much driven by the mayor’s
office in partnership with the American
Institute of Architects and Fast Company
in San Ramon California a few miles
outside of San Francisco they’re testing
driverless shuttles that can have 12
people moving at a time that they first
tested on a closed track and when they
put them on public streets they allow
them to be operated by their public
sector partners it is exactly these sort
of public driven partnerships and
initiatives that we need to see more of
we need to see more trial and error and
more creativity this is how we can
ensure that our future is
designed driven by our values we the
people ultimately need to make sure that
as this revolution unfolds humanity does
not take a backseat thank you
[Applause] [Music]
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