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Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

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Prasad Gupte

Prasad Gupte Senior Strategist, HASS COE (Former)

Prasad Gupte was a Senior Strategist at the USDOT Highly Automated Systems Safety Center of Excellence (HASS COE). Previously, while on detail to the Office of the Undersecretary for Science and Innovation in the...

Kristy Frizzell

Kristy Frizzell Executive Assistant, HASS COE kristy.frizzell@dot.gov

Kristy Frizzell is the Executive Assistant for the USDOT Highly Automated Systems Safety Center of Excellence (HASS COE). She has more than 30 years of experience in program management,...

Who We Are

The Highly Automated Systems Safety Center of Excellence brings together knowledge across USDOT, academia, and industry on highly automated transportation systems, exploring new technologies and their potential impact on safety.

USDOT Statement on FCC waiver action

Technology plays an important role in making our roads safer for all users. By issuing the Joint Parties’ waiver request, the FCC provides the certainty needed for our nation’s transportation technology industry to bring safety-enabling cellular-vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) services to the...