And markets are always looking for longterm signals. We just gave a very bill longterm signals that i believe in what i am hearing is opening the door to investments in the United States and that is a very good thing but people should also keep in mind and be converted by the fact that our climate decisions have been referred three times by the supreme court. There is no where else did go. They said move forward and that is what we are doing and so i think it is the strong a signal as we can possibly have, that the u. S. Is open to looking at how to devise a low carb and economy and get it moving and running in a way that will entice investment. That is good for everybody. Madam administrator, let me tell you we deeply appreciate your taking time with us and the work you are doing and if i get it right i would like to borrow an expression from your book, you did wicked good. Thank you. [applause] that is all right. The media at a going to have a little press availability right here. [i
That there was going to have to be pledges mutual pledges that the other guys thought i was good enough to warrant their president our president cannot did make this announcement. If we come in with some kind of a lowball, which obviously wasnt in the cards for us, but if they had seen nothing that was inadequate, that would concern them. I think they were just as concerned about a notion of the capacity of the u. S. To implement the target. They always watch our politics closely on our flickr what was going on and whats doable and not doable. Our capacity is both quite ambitious but also something we can execute based on the authorities we have. I think i was important to them. You know, because of other progress with china, it has caused a lot of people to ask about india. The thirdlargest emitter. In a very important player in the dynamics generally. We do cochairs and dialogue on climate issues and we just happened to be in delhi during that meeting during the International Session
The last week. I just finished on friday. I think theres a lot of progress made. This is something weve been working, my colleague at the state department, on this now for years. And its got to be four, five years ago where there was over 100 countries expressing support for an amendment, such an amendment to face down, not completely out but to face down the use of hses. To do that under the montreal protocol. There has been some resistance historically about doing that because a bunch of countries who have not wanted to go there have said agencies, Greenhouse Gas you can only treat these under thats not true. Dragging you into too much come into the weeds too much. The hses were developed as a substitute for ozone depleting substances are they do a good job of not depleting the ozone layer but they do a bad job on global warming. They were created as a creature of the montreal protocol and for that reason, for the jurisdiction confined to do with them. Thats just behind but the montr
That more accurately was able to define this program in an ongoing manner, what would that look like . Ideally, if every vehicle on the road or at least a large sample on an ongoing basis were equipped with sophisticated Data Collection equipment, including cameras, that would give us a great deal of insight into many of the intervening factors of crashes, including drowsiness. Short of that, i would really like to see in the National Data , which i believe is the only ongoing data system that has the means to make a reasonable determination of andher a driver was drowsy whether fatigue contributed to the crash, not in the same way but much better than simple investigation of police reports. Collection system and to be beefed up in size a number of investigations were to be done each year and of ,ittle more depth were added analogous perhaps to the Motor Vehicle Crash Causation survey, which was a one time ever done to 2007, with not only the drivers but their families, their employees
I would note that, in recent the raw number of crashes and deaths nationwide has decreased and that is a good thing. There is anyeve evidence based on the best the problemta that is increasing or decreasing as a share of all crashes. If we look or use conservative estimates that we have across of of the more solid studies the proportion of crashes that involved drowsy drivers and wely that to 2012 data, estimate over 5000 were killed in crashes that involved a drowsy driver. You mentioned multiple you look atnd alcoholimpaired driving. I am wondering if you can use the same technique on that data to look at fatiguerelated crashes. If so, or if not, what would your opinion be . I believe it could be done. I would only do that with a couple of the data from studies that i referred to in my presentation. The National Motor vehicle Crash Causation survey and automotive sampling system. Researchers,ies, independent of the police, make the determination of whether a driver is drowsy. They di