Reporter daniel and martin step into a sleek sedan for a drive in california. Once they get on highway, its clear this isnt your typical drive nor is this like any other car on the road. The only thing i have to do now is press the two buttons and let go of the Steering Wheel. The car is taking over the complete driving task. What you see here is the first generation of an automated driving system. The car doesnt assist you anymore. It is in charge of driving. Reporter welcome to the future of driving. Cars smart enough to drive themselves. Prototypes of selfdriving cars are on the road in singapore, sweden and here in Silicon Valley. Im excited about selfdriving cars. Reporter this is fords chief technology officer. The ford edge can spot and pull into parking spaces. Over the 100 years of the industry, there has been a lot of great technologies introduced. The selfdriving vehicle is in a different category. Reporter selfdriving cars could rededpifine how we drive live. When machines
Sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. Thousands of people gathered in the turkish capital of ankara today to condemn the worst terrorist attack in that nations recent history. Families and friends of some victims gathered today to mourn. At least 95 people died when two bombs exploded at a rally by ethnic kurds protesting the escalating violence between Turkish Security forces and kurdish separatists. Today families also waited for news about the 160 people still being treated in hospitals. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack near ankaras m
Retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening thanks for joining us. European leaders are trying to unite behind a plan to cope with their ongoing surge of migrants and refugees arriving mainly from the middle east and africa. More than 430,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean Sea for europe this year, most pushing toward northern and western europe. On monday, the 28nation European Union will hold an emergency summit in brussels, belgium, to try to agree on how many Asylum Seekers each country will accept. The newshours William Brangham has been reporting all week from hungary, he is now in vienna, austria and i spoke to him earlier today. William, among the european countries, hungary has been the most critical of europes broader response to
Million. The opposition spent a fraction of that. Just a tenth. And i think that voters heard that. The measure wasnt as well crafted as perhaps it could have been. It was very easy to attack. And you know, this was something that a lot of the cities, the mayor, a lot of the cities sort of political establishment came out against. But we saw other issues that i think we want to talk about where housing played front and center. Wrooel get to that in a second. Lets talk about the mayors race. Mayor ed lee easily won reelection. He picks up 60 of the vote. But 40 of the voters said no to him. To what extent was that percentage a protest vote against ed lee . I would say it absolutely is. Not only that but we had 10,000 people sit out the mayors race. This is an incumbent who is well known in san francisco. Mayor gavin newsom in 2007, the year he had an fair with the wife of one of his employees who worked for him got 74 of the vote. This is not as much of a mandate as the mayor could have
Sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening thanks for joining us. In philadelphia, pope francis is in the final hours of his first ever visit to the United States. At a seminary this morning, the pope met privately with five survivors of sexual abuse by priests and others. Francis apologized to victims, saying, in part, i am profoundly sorry that your innocence was violated by those who you trusted. For those who were abused by a member of the clergy, i am deeply sorry for the times when you or your family spoke out, to report the abuse, but you were not heard or believed. The pope la