The principles will help set a strategy for the department's approach to innovation in transportation, especially as companies deploy more advanced automated technology on vehicles and continue to develop and test self-driving cars.
Through its principles, the department will focus on an innovation strategy that:
• Serves key policy priorities, such as creating economic opportunity, enabling equitable access to transportation and addressing climate change.
• Supports workers.
• Fosters U.S. competitiveness through reliable and adaptive transportation systems and infrastructure.
• Allows for experimentation and learns from setbacks.
• Provides opportunities for collaboration among the public, private and academic sectors.
• Favors flexible policies that can adapt as technology evolves.
