Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. Now at 11 00, this man you see here is now dead after a first of its kind car accident. His tesla was on autopilot when it slammed into a tractortrailer. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. An im larry beil in for dan ashley tonight. Federal authorities are launching an investigation as the crash raises questions about the safety of those selfdriving cars. Cornell bernard is live in berkeley. Cornell . Reporter the selfdriving cars slowly becoming the new reality out here on the road. But one mans death raising new questions about the technology. This was joshua brown driving his tesla that he nicknamed tessie. He is the first known u. S. Fatality while using selfdriving technology. Tesla ceo elon musk tweeted his condolences to the model s owner. He calls brown a friend to tesla. He was known for posting videos of his car driving on autopilot, like this one, where it narrowly avoided crashing into another
Because even one attack is one too many. Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. Now at 11 00, this man you see here is now dead after a first of its kind car accident. His tesla was on autopilot when it slammed into a tractortrailer. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. An im larry beil in for dan ashley tonight. Federal authorities are launching an investigation as the crash raises questions about the safety of those selfdriving cars. Cornell bernard is live in berkeley. Cornell . Reporter the selfdriving cars slowly becoming the new reality out here on the road. But one mans death raising new questions about the technology. This was joshua brown driving his tesla that he nicknamed tessie. He is the first known u. S. Fatality while using selfdriving technology. Tesla ceo elon musk tweeted his condolences to the model s owner. He calls brown a friend to tesla. He was known for posting videos of his car driving on autopilot, like this one, where i
His tesla that he nicknamed tessie. He is the first known u. S. Fatality while using selfdriving technology. Tesla ceo elon musk tweeted his condolences to the model s owner. He calls brown a friend to tesla. He was known for posting videos of his car driving on autopilot, like this one, where it narrowly avoided crashing into another car. In the fatal crash, a tractortrailer turned in front of him and the autopilot failed to stop the car. Tesla acknowledges the accident on its website saying neither autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractortrailer against the brightly lit sky. So the brake was not applied. No technology is foolproof. Reporter this professor heads uc berkeleys Mechanical Engineering department where selfdriving technology is being researched and tested. He said it still needs improving, and at this point it still cant be your chauffeur. People should view it not as a substitute for the driver. Reporter but many have been spotted leaving the driving
The change that has gone on in the American Economy is such and the growth of the American Healthcare system is such that in communities run the country, hospitals are the major employer or certainly one of the major employers. Cedarssinai is the sixth largest private employer in los angeles county, just as an example. At the same time, all of us have to recognize that as organizations, we are going to have to be more efficient. We are going to have to figure out how to deliver care in ways we have not thought of until now. Technologies are that are coming along, whether that technology is in the form of new discoveries around Molecular Medicine and other things that allow total cost of care. We have to work on the issue of total cost of care, not just the unit cost. We have to work on both, keeping in mind what is the total cost of care. Over time, using the International Comparison that john mentioned earlier, if you look at what are the reasons for that, i think your observation is
I hope we can again rely on humility on our need to cooperate, on our dependence on each other, to learn how to trust each other again and by so doing better serve the people who elected us. Two speeches, two american leaders. Which one sounds president tool you . Lets get to the president ial historian, Kirsten Powers and Rick Santorum of the senior political commentator and matt lewis. Tim, youre first. The historian on the panel. Heres what President Trump said. Political correctness for me is easy. Sometimes they say he doesnt act president ial. And i say hey, look, great schools, smart guy. Its so easy to act president ial. But thats not going to get done. In fact i said its much easier, by the way, to act president ial than what were doing here tonight, believe me and i sa said and i said with the exception of the late great Abraham Lincoln i can be more president ial than any president thats ever held this office. That i can tell you. First of all im not sure how many president