ASCE OC Branch Luncheon - Autonomous Vehicles
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| Calendar | Orange County |
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| Location | The Center Club, 650 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa, 92626 |
| Date | Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 10:30am - 12:00pm |
| Duration | 1 hours, 30 minutes |
| Details | _____________ Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/asce-oc-branch-luncheon-autonomous-vehicles-tickets-22540442069?ref=ebapi _____________ TOPIC - Autonomous Vehicles The ASCE Orange County Branch would like to invite you to attend the July Luncheon Meeting with a presentation on Autonomous Vehilces.Technology is advancing at an incredibly rapid pace in the transportation space. Fully Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are on the horizon. Already today, many new vehicles have two or more automated functions operating simultaneously, with common features such as lane control, park assist, adaptive cruise control and automated braking. Experts debate when fully self-driving cars will be truly ready for our streets. Google, however, has announced plans to have Full Self-Driving Automation technology by 2017, and are already testing their driverless vehicles on the streets in California, and will soon be testing them in Washington State. Other car manufacturers are close behind, with Audi, BMW, GM, Tesla, and Nissan expecting to sell self-driving vehicles by 2020. Whether the time frame is 5 years or 15 years, there is no doubt that AVs are coming relatively soon. In addition, technology has changed the landscape of how our transportation systems operate. Our transportation and land use policies on how to fully embrace technology and especially autonomous vehicles have not been developed and implemented. AVs offer significant potential to bring game changing improvements to our transportation systems and to our cities. Safety, greater mobility, improved public transport, better use of space, reduction of greenhouse gases and more could result from widespread use of AVs. At the same time, AVs could also bring severe congestion, loss of jobs, and other negative externalities. Speaker: Ryan Snyder Ryan Snyder is a Principal with Transpo Group, a transportation planning and engineering firm that prepares sustainable transportation plans. Ryan is a member of the Bicycle Technical Committee and the Autonomous Vehicle Task Force of the National Uniform Traffic Device Committee. He has worked on hundreds of Complete Streets plans throughout Southern California, and has helped shape transportation policies for 30 years. Ryan serves on the faculty at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Urban Planning Department, and he holds an M.A. in Urban Planning and a B.A. in Economics from UCLA. Contact marketing@asceoc.org for sponsorship opportunities. |
| Repeats? | No |