Toyota's Ken Laberteaux Talks about the Road Ahead

Tell us a bit about your professional interests. I started my career working in telecommunications for about 10 years, then joined Toyota 13 years ago. My early time at Toyota was focused on wireless communications—including PHY, media access control, and security and privacy. For the past seven or eight years, I’ve worked on broader topics, trying to answer the question, “What should Toyota do to create a sustainable mobility society?” My current work spans questions of land use, demographics, automated driving, vehicle electrifi cation, smart-grid development, car and ride sharing, policy analysis, and the quantifi ed self.