Today, Business as Usual welcomes Finch Fulton, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at the U.S. DOT, to overview the Autonomous Vehicle 4.0 initiative. Finch will overview how U.S. DOT is committed to facilitating a new era of transportation innovation and safety and ensuring that our country remains a leader in automation. U.S. DOT is acting as a convener and facilitator, partnering with a broad coalition of industry, academic, states and local, safety advocacy, and transportation stakeholders to support the safe development, testing and integration of automated vehicle technologies. Finch has been the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy since April 2017 and is the nominee to be Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy. Previously, he served as a member of the President’s Transition Team, and with the Department of Transportation as a Special Advisor to the Secretary.
