In 2024, the Automated Road Transportation Symposium was held in San Diego, California, its first time at this location. The plenary presentations and breakout discussions continued to provide the meeting participants with the most up-to-date and authoritative information about the current international state of development and deployment of road vehicle automation systems, retaining its standing as the essential global meeting for industry, government and research practitioners in the field. Based on the experience of a full year of driverless operations by substantial numbers of vehicles in several cities and of a high-profile incident that shook public confidence and created a crisis for one of the industry leaders, the participants had plenty to consider in the well-packed meeting agenda.