He was born and raised in the netherlands and moved to new york in 2010. Thanks for being here. Good afternoon, mr. Chairman and members of the committee. Im peter weijmarshausen. Im ceo and founder of shapeways. Im honored to be here today to discuss how 3d printing is fueling Small Business growth enabling anyone to create a business with fiscal products at low capital cost. As a kid in the netherlands, i loved playing with computers resulting in a passion for open Source Software. Driven by this and my entrepreneurial spirit, i spent much of my career at Startup Software companies. One was blender, the First Company to publish a free 3d software. This turned out to be important. In 2006 i learned about the technology called 3d printing which prints physical objects based on 3d computer designs. I immediately thought of the blender community. A large group of enthusiasts. They were using 3d software but never imagined it would be possible to hold their own designs in their hands. I a
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Think to his last point about safety is at the core of the connected vehicle is safety. There is the technology that has been around for 18 years that will notify in the case of an accident and if you think about how many accidents are reported from the vehicle from those technologies its out there and connected. How do they keep up . I think its things like this and i think their initiatives where we as an industry need to start coming together. Im not a believer that we need to throw policy at everything that happens in the car because policy often will stymie innovation. I think the technology that got us to the safer cars, these connected cars they technology that allows us to have handsfree calling in cars the technology that connects you to your dealer or the diagnostic that same technology can be used to solve some of these things that i think nhtsa is worried about and i agree with him 100 when he should come together as an industry and we need all the players at the table to f
Be in the mess were in right now. Thank you. Host ralphs comments from north carolina. Twitter australia is losing its own Auto Industry. Projections show 2016 will be the end of. . Hat do we know guest the Australian Government has been giving subsidies to the companies to keep them in and gmia and with ford announcing they are going to withdraw production, it goes to the idea that auto production has been part of national pride. There are other intangibles beyond the direct jobs created. The country has been trying to keep production, but it is not like it will be successful. T from boring file clerk why can we not just invent Something Better than the conventional car. This is old technology. Can you talk about new technology you will look for this week . The car, the engine, is basically the same technology that was introduced 150 years ago. It has certainly gotten lighter, and we are going further. Fuelcell vehicles, those running on Hydrogen Fuel cells, we will see that, plug in
Remarks from David Strickland the former administrator of the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Good afternoon everybody. I hope youre enjoying the first day of ces although it is the official first day. I will be the moderator for todays panel. But before we start the brief introductions and the full discussion we have some opening remarks and i want to introduce the next speaker. He has been riding shotgun over this for four years now. Its been a very interesting four years and a revolution was going on in the automobile industry. Id like you to please welcome David Strickland. [applause] thank you so much and wow this is a superstar panel. I may stay longer to learn something here. As a number of you maybe aware i will be stepping down from my post at nhtsa as administrator and a couple of weeks but i wanted to share a couple of perspectives quickly. Ive been told five minutes and i will keep 25. We first began our work during my tenure on distraction starting really i