it is councilman mike bonin. he has taken to heart this vision of safety for all of us on the roads and has a vision for zero deaths and injuries. importantthat is so and something in a region where we are so famous for our car culture. i have had a couple of cases, where i was biking, and i was hit by cars. i know our former mayor himself was hit when he was biking on the mean streets of l.a. here in l.a., we have had a tough record sometimes. councilman bonin, i admire you much, foradership so leading us toward a safer tomorrow. , you with your leadership are an important member of the city of los angeles city council transportation. you have led us into having the mass transit system, which the region deserves. as well as improvements on our roads, highways, and everything else. i just want to say, we are so lucky to have such a visionary mayor and his team and thanks to the deputy mayor and his team. just fantastic. when you have someone who makes it their mantra, to represent us constituent,d as a and so man

to councilman mike bonin for putting these into action. on the federal level clearly we need safety considerations and everything else to be in place. i want to write now, take a to, take a want moment to go to northern california for our next speaker. the executive director for the transportation authority, they are one of 10 federally designated proving grounds for autonomous vehicles in the nation. the facility has been used by quite a few of the major automakers already. they also have some other interesting projects in the works. i will let him come up here and share slides with you on the screen. give him a warm welcome. randy. [applause] i am savoring the moment. i don't get invited to l.a. very often. , im from northern california work for the transportation authority for almost eight years now. i wanted to give you an overview of what we are doing to try to innovate mobility or redefine mobility. world, ii go in the promised our board i would tell you about who we are and what we do. we manage a multibillion-dollar suite of produc

thank you to the honored guests here including council member mike bonin. thank you for joining this conversation and rec nice to the association of governments and their support of this event as well. we're excited to be hosting. thank you, everyone. [ applause ] >> thank you so much, jason and everyone with the mayor's office. they've been fantastic to work with, norma and billy, thank you. i want to pick up on what jason said. big thanks are do to the association of governments, sky. i should say many years ago i was working with an l.a. business group that inspired me to get more focused on the transportation world and ran a project by musk because i was so scared by the statistics of the numbers put into the sky regional transportation report years ago realizing how things were already quite bad in l.a. and would get worse if we didn't all come together. sky plays a really critical role not only supporting this event today but leading all of us to think big and deeply. they've done great reports about autonomous vehicles. thank you, hassan. and i'd lik