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Good morning, everybody. Im with the financial times. That looked like a human being driving your car. Try one that is not a human being. What are you looking to learn . How it can handle traffic. What are your concerns or questions . To see the safety of how you can start to be automatic when, in fact, you have other human beings around that are not automatic. Right. Indeed. Are you all going . Absolutely. Come on. Who is going to copilot . Do you want to copilot . All right. This is really something. I got you. May i have permission for takeoff . Godspeed. Thank you. If i need that, im in deep trouble. See you guys. How was it . Very impressive. Amazing technology. Thing drives itself. Can hand off the acceleratoacce brakes, everything. Its remarkable how far they have come with this. Its very exciting to see where it could lead. How far did you go . Where did you go . We went out into virginia. We hit the 395 traffic. I asked if there was anything you could do about that. Driverless cars isnt going to help traffic jams. We went across the bridge and came back up route 1. It was a huge traffic jam on 395. Got a chance to see the car in action. Feel how it is when its driverless. Its really amazing. I mean, i guess its way more than i had seen or thought. How did it feel . What was the difference . Its just when you hand it off and you basically hands off the steering column and the brakes. It sees things. It adjusts automatically. There was a dump truck going by. It kind of veered away from it. It recognizes all these things. Pedestrians. I know this is i guess what you call driver assisted technology. We still have a driver in the drivers seat. The next more advanced stage is where its completely autonomous. You dont have any driver in the vehicle. You think about the 38,000 fatalities that occur on americas highways every year and how many could be avoided just because inattentiveness and mistakes that behaviorally that people make when you drive vehicles, how much this technology could save lives. That to me is ultimately the real goal in all this. Tell me, what does it see . It recognizes its got cameras all around. Cameras one here and here. Underneath the mirror in front which recognizes everything that you are coming up against or thats around you. Then reacts to that. It will tell you, too, if, for example, you are in a driverless mode and you need to take control again. It sends an audible signal and lights up. If you take control of the drivers the Steering Wheel again, then it transitions back. Its really remarkable the way it transitions from driverless to driver assisted. Who do you think is the better driver, yourself or the car . I gotta say, as he was driving it, you know, you could tell, and obviously he would let you know when he was handing it off for the car to drive itself. It does. We were in traffic all the way out and all the way back. The way that it automatically brakes and recognizes vehicles in front and behind and makes just automatic adjustments. So its really advanced. It takes any time you are in a situation like we were merging on 395, and it takes and recognizes that and it captures that. They take it back and break it down and figure out the car gains intelligence over time just like a human does. As you have more experience driving and reacting to certain situations. He said they will its like take a photograph or a copy of what it has seen and it will take it back and break it down and continue a process where the car continues to become smarter over time. Why the hearing today . Well, we want to explore this. We think that theres tremendous value, obviously, from a health and safety standpoint. Enabling technology to help solve some of our problems, one of which is too many traffic accidents on he americas highways. In terms of productivity and convenience, quality of life features, theres so many things that we can benefit from as this technology continues to advance. I can see in south dakota when you drive on interstate 390, its five hours of nothingness, you could hand that off and work the entire time. Which would have great productivity gains in addition to i was asking about how a car would react on an ice highway which we have a lot of in the northern climates. He was explaining how the smart features of the vehicle adapt to that. For example, he said if the driver was doing something or the car recognized something that was some sort of hazard or accident, it would pull over to the side of the road and stop. Its got some really some great safety features. Wasnt one of these cars involved in an accident recently . I think thats true. Does that concern you . It does. There are always going to be gaps. We have accidents on highways every day. Thats the key is to try to figure out how to develop continue to see this Technology Develop to where the risk of accident goes down. I mean, were we live in an imperfect. Theres always a certain amount of, i think, risk and danger involved any time you have vehicles that can travel 70, 80, 90 miles an hour. I think to the degree Smart Technology can help eliminate some of those hazards, reduce the amount of risk and hopefully save lives in the process, thats a good thing. Some of the companies testifying are saying they would Like Congress to empower federal regulators to put uniform rules rather than a patch work of state regulations. Is that the right approach to let the feds take the legal . I think in a situation like this, because we have 50 different states, lots of different highways that go across different states, there needs i dont want to see the feds come down with a heavy hand. At least a framework where there are yen rugeneral rules of the. People doing the research and developing the technology have parameters to work with. They can build around that. I do think that theres a role here for congress to play for the federal government to play in the development of this. Not to get in the way of it but to ensure that it proceeds in a way that is safe and with an eye toward maximizing the role that technology can play in making highways safer and making americans lives better. You heard the reason why you went out into virginia was because the District Of Columbia doesnt permit the autonomous operation of vehicles like this. Are there issues with jurisdictions prohibiting it all together . Right. That was the issue. Thats why we had to go to virginia. What did you think of it, senator . Well, as i was hands off barrelling toward a turn on a concrete wall, my instinct was to grab the wheel. But they said that if i did not grab the wheel, that it actually would have gone ahead and turned. In your lifetime, you have been in some cool pieces of equipment and ridden around in some great technology, where does this kind of stack up in terms of some of the things that you have done in your day . For terrestrial transportation, this is pretty good. Would you trust it at any moment . You said you got nervous. Yeah. You trust it going down the highway. I trust my instincts to control the car. But they absolutely swore on a stack of bibles that as that car was accelerating into the turn, that it would have turned. Thats for another day. Driving . Somebody else in control. What age children . My children are grown children. Yes, i would trust them. I wouldnt trust a 6yearold in here. You would feel comfortable driving your family around . Of course. Of course. And its very, very smooth. And despite all the washington potholes, it was still smooth. Thanks, guys. Now, Auto Industry experts talk about efforts to develop selfdriving cars. This Senate Commerce science and Transportation Committee hearing is about two hours

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