General Motors CEO Mary Barra will deliver a keynote speech opening a five day conference on the future of intelligent transportation in Detroit in September as the issue takes growing importance. She will keynote the 21st Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and she will address the changing transportation environment around the world as well as the rapidly evolving technology of connected, autonomous, and electric vehicles.
The conference is expected to attract more than 10,000 international business, government, and research leaders to discuss transportation innovations and share ideas and strategies for advancing the development and deployment on intelligent transportation solutions to solve the world's transportation challenges. "Connectivity may drive more positive change for customers than any other technological innovation our industry has provided in decades," Barra said.
Southeast Michigan is at the heart of a growing intelligent transportation industry that will forever change how we move people and goods. There is no better place to showcase the next generation of high-tech innovation in transportation than in a resurgent Detroit.
Last week, President Barack Obama hailed cutting-edge "vehicle to vehicle" technology that could cut up to 80 percent of all road deaths. The revolutionary technology could reshape how Americans drive and dramatically reduce the costs of the annual 32,000 road deaths and 2 million injuries - crashes that cost society more than $800 billion annually.