Capitol Hill Briefing 

# Driverless Cars: The Next Transportation Revolution 

Date and Time 

January 21, 2010 1 - 2:30 PM EST 

Location 

B-339 Rayburn House Office Building 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring **Randal O’Toole**, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author, *Gridlock: Why We’re Stuck in Traffic and What to Do about It*; and **Burkhard Huhnke**, Director of Research, Volkswagen America. 

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While transportation planners debate investing in highway capacity or building rail transit and high-speed rail, another alternative may make more sense. As discussed in O’Toole’s recently published book *Gridlock*, new technologies can cost-effectively increase the capacity of existing highways to move people faster and safer while using less energy. Many of these innovations are already available, ranging from adaptive cruise control now being sold on many cars up to completely automated vehicles. The main obstacles to more widespread deployment are not technical but institutional and bureaucratic. Please join O’Toole and Huhnke to find out how transportation could be transformed in just a few years.

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