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5 Points. Saguaro Cactus State Autonomous Vehicle Executive Order. Copy it for your State.

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey revised Executive Order: 2018-04 on autonmous vehicles includes:

follow applicable traffic laws and regulations of Arizona and the federal government
fully autonomous vehicles, with no driver in the vehicle, and on pulic roads must:
- written statement to AZ Department of Transportation (AZDOT)
- or, within 60 days of this order provide a written statement
- waivers from the National Highway Safety Administration will be recognized
- autonomous vehicle failures must…

Self Driving Car Companies are flooding the rain free Arizona desert, here’s why:

The rain free, sunny weather, is ideal for self driving car vehicle sensors
Arizona has no self driving car regulations
Arizona has calm traffic
Arizona has “pretty good” roads
The one government act on self-driving cars in Arizona is that “Governor Doug Ducey signed an executive order in 2015 requiring his underlings to “undertake any necessary steps to support the testing and operation of self-driving…

The May issue of Fiscal Notes from the Office of the Comptroller concerning greater transportation infrastructure by the numbers:

38% of Texas major roads are poor or fair condition
800 million daily vehicle miles by 2040
- 455 million daily vehicle miles in 2014
19% of Texas bridges are deemed “structurally deficient” or “functionally obsolete” in 2015
$2.5 billion of net revenue from the sales tax will be moved to the State Highway Fund beginning in Fiscal Year 2018 (Prop. 7)
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Sharon Denny
- McKinney
- vice president of Strategy for Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems
- B.S. in journalism from the University of Maryland & a Master of Science in natural resource management strategy from the National Defense University in Washington D.C.
Amy L. Gowder
- San Antonio
- vice president of Supply Chain Management for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
- B.S. in bioengineering from Arizona State University & a MBA from MIT
Cathy Kilmain, Ph. D.
- North Richland…

New Governor’s Directive to TXDOT. It is less than an excutive order, more than cocktail conversation, but will:
1. Require the identification of the state’s most congested chokepoints
2. Address the chokepoints by working with transportation planners and local communities
3. Goals: reduce congestion & get new roads built as soon as possible.
Building roads is economic development & creates jobs
Congestion has an economic impact of over $1,000 for the average “rush hour”…

Background: For the first time in more than 100 years, we have a new border bridge for trains. Safety first.

3 Points of the Trasnportation Agreement with Mexico:

Goal: promote and increase bilateral collaboration on future border infrastructure projects
This is tied to energy. Hello, Mexico energy deregulation, how you doin’?
This is about 3 other things
- encourage economic development
- facilitate bilateral trade
- cooperative border security.