Rutt Bridges is an author, keynote speaker, and serial entrepreneur. He earned degrees in physics and geophysical sciences from Georgia Tech and was named the 2017 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Alumnus of the Year. Rutt serves on their College of Sciences Advisory Board, the Colorado Department of Transportation Innovisers Council, and the Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) Autonomous Vehicle Task Force. He is a past chair of Colorado Public Radio and past president of the 30,000-member Society of Exploration Geophysicists. After moving to Denver in 1980, Rutt founded Advance Geophysical, which was later acquired by Landmark Graphics. He then founded Colorado's Bighorn Center for Public Policy, and later briefly ran for U.S. Senate, stepping aside to support then-Attorney General and later Interior Secretary Ken Salazar after the incumbent dropped out. Since exiting a successful analytics software startup three years ago, Rutt has focused on research to understand the economic and social impact of disruptive technologies. His 2015 book, “Driverless Car Revolution,“ predicted many details of the rapid advances in autonomy we see today. His new book, “Our Driverless Future: Heaven or Hell?,” presents a practical implementation strategy that virtually eliminates congestion while saving America over a trillion dollars a year. Much of that savings goes to commuters who switch from driving alone to sharing free on-demand door-to-door driverless mobility. This reinvented public transit is paid for by reallocating America’s existing bus subsidies, which on average pay 80% of the cost of the bus ride.