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Stefan Heck, Consulting Professor at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, will discuss Transport Revolution: A tenfold shift in productivity. Stefan led the Energy Transformation Collaborative this past academic year which provided students with hands-on experience designing and launching innovative projects to solve the world’s most pressing energy problems. Innovative Transportation Systems, his fall 2014 class, looked at using new technologies and innovative business models to solve Bay Area transportation challenges.

The June 5 workshop, Towards Programming Ethics in Automated Vehicles, brought together experts to discuss how a code of ethics for programming can be applied to increasingly intelligent and automated vehicles. Featured speakers included Chris Gerdes, CARS; Patrick Lin, Cal-Poly; Debra Satz, Stanford Center for Ethics in Society; Shannon Vallor, Santa Clara University;  Noah Goodall, Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research, Dan Siciliano, Stanford Law School; Mykel Kochenderfer, Aero Astro and Silvio Savarese, Computer Science.

Former CARS Fellow Bryant Walker Smith will participate in a 90 minute teleconference on self-driving car insurance issues on July 8, 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET. Other panelists include Professor Bob Peterson, Santa Clara University Law School and Brian Soublet, the General Counsel of the California Department of Motor Vehicles, moderated by Hilary Rowen, Partner, Sedgwick LLP.  Fee and registration information available here.

CARS is hosting a joint farewell party for Bryant Walker Smith (Post-Doc in "Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving", 2011-2014 at Stanford Law School and CARS) and Patrick Lin (Visiting Faculty in "Ethics for Autonomous Vehicles", 2013-2014 at CARS).The casual gathering with remarks from the scholars will take place on Thursday, June 12, 4:30 p.m. at the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab.The extended Stanford community including all CARS affiliates are cordially invited to this event, RSVPs are appreciated to facilitate the planning.