Is best. Think about it a second. Which one we got a paper clip, binder clip and stapler. Which one is best . Asha, which one is best . What purpose you want them to serve. Its not that hard. Which one is best . We have an intellectual in the room. Im looking for someone with an answer. Which one is best, david . Stapler. Well, youre wrong. The stapler is not best. Jack, which one is best . The paper clip. Wrong again. The right answer is the binder clip. The binder clip is, in my opinion, the best. All right . Now i will admit that if i had a 100page document to fasten, binder clip would be best. Stapler is not going to do the job very well. On the other hand if i want to fasten a receipt to a note, maybe i need the paper clip so in effect, i think im coming around to ashas answer. Depends on what were talking about here. We are up against a point of view that takes these things and says one is definitely best. Our reading for today contends that the bottom device is just plain best.
This is potomac mills. Here we have atlanta. Not only do we see cars parked off the street everywhere, we also see major interstate highways accommodating cars at extraordinary expense. So this is like taking your swing line stapler and 200page report and getting a sledgehammer to force that staple through. At least thats one way of possibly looking at this, right . Our assigned reading for today says to the contrary, this is something we accommodate. The automobile is something we accommodate because it is so valuable to our economy, to our society, to the freedom of its residents. Its worth it. Hes not saying, you know, its not costly in some senses. It is costly. But hes saying, but its worth it. For example, look at the economic benefit. All right. More jobs. More income for people. And i, of course, being a good skeptical reader, looked for the data myself. If you look, youll see cars and trucks in the u. S. Increasing in numbers from 1960 on the left to 2010 on the right. And you
Connected vehicles or autonomous selfdriving vehicles. Department of transportation thinks of this as connected automation. Its really both. They both give you sort of added safety. Connected vehicles or basically v to v, vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to infrastructure, v to x or anything else, basically theyre all going to be able to talk. What we know is studies so far suggest that even two applications of v to v could prevent 600,000 crashes and save 1,000 lives. So it has huge opportunity overall. Potentially 80 of crashes that dont involve an impaired driver could be prevented with v to v. So we have actually introduced a rule making which has been accepted by omb for review just to try to set up a consistent piece of equipment that would be used for the whole system in the United States. Okay. When do you anticipate this being online . Or you know, are constituents the availability. Give me a timeline on that. Right now its been accepted by omb as under review. Thats kind of where
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Investigate the deal. I have not seen this, and its kind of amazing. In looking at these conflicts, its always good to follow the money. Firestone and the warlord frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. At fordfoundation. Org. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. Narrator this is a story about business and war. Its a story about a small group of americans and the choices they made many years ago. A story abou