Ian Jeffries
90:49 - 91:27
"other agencies in the DOT have embraced performance-based regulations, whether it's FAA, whether it's FHWA, whether it's FTA. The FRA, for some reason, has not, you know, really come around to that concept."
“other agencies in the DOT have embraced performance-based regulations, whether it's FAA, whether it's FHWA, whether it's FTA. The FRA, for some reason, has not, you know, really come around to that concept.”
- Speaker
- Ian Jeffries
- Timestamp
- 90:49 – 91:27
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- June 9, 2026
From the transcript
And other agencies in the DOT have embraced performance-based regulations, whether it's FAA, whether it's FHWA, whether it's FTA. The FRA, for some reason, has not, you know, really come around to that concept. And when we're talking about automation, when we're talking about autonomous trucks, when we're reading articles about driverless trucks delivering Dr Pepper and Pepsi to stores in Texas today and operating out on the interstates, which, by the way, I do not begrudge at all. I think it's fantastic. I just think we should be operating on a mode-neutral tech policy that drives outcomes versus inputs.
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