Michel Parent is currently the program manager at INRIA (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) of the R&D team on advanced Road transport (IMARA research group). This group focuses on research and development of information and communication technologies for road transport and in particular on fully automated vehicles (the cybercars). In particular, in 1991 Michel invented the CTS (Cybernetic Transportation System) which is an innovative transport concept based on fully automatic vehicles. In his previous position, Michel spent half of his time in research and academia at institutions including Stanford University and MIT in the USA and INRIA in France, and the other half in the robotics industry. He is also the author of several books on robotics, vision and intelligent vehicles, and numerous publications and patents. Michel was the coordinator of the European Project CyberCars between 2001 and 2004 and the follow-up project CyberCars2 (2006-2009) alongside many other French European projects on ITS. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)