For inspiring me and millions of americans to live and study the cant dictation. I want to thank you ladies and gentlemen. Please join me in thanking america is constitutional law professor akhil amar. [applause] Cokie Roberts political commentator for npr and abc news is next on booktv. Her book capital dames recounts washington d. C. During the civil war through the lives of many would who lived and worked in the capital. Following the stock from politics prose story in d. C. We bring you a book party for capital dames from the museum also in washington. I want to say it is such a personal pleasure for me and for brad who is not here to post Cokie Roberts tonight. I think this is your sixth or seven at politics prose. You have been here for three previous books all the way which were New York Times bestsellers. We have a couple if you miss them on the first go around. Cokie has also been here several times but there several times with her husband steve roberts, for books theyve writt
Could you speak to the idea of fully Autonomous Vehicles in a shared use environment that is not as a personal car that i own but a fleet vehicle that i use or like the daimler car to go fully autonomous, can deliver packages food deliver people, replace cars busses, taxis in an urban environment. Seems like that paradigm change would be looking at it differently, than trying to replace each individual car, would have more opportunity. I think that when you talk about fleets, this is something were already seeing. Ben mentioned military use, not only drones but Land Vehicles and military looking at fleets there. Theyre definitely looking at this kind of technology. From a consumer perspective, Something Like car to go is a perfect platform for this technology. You see it in washington, d. C. , those of you that travel to other cities we are in lots of cities around the world you see the smart cars that are a little reminiscent in the google perception of what an Autonomous Car will loo
We have a lot of questions. The gentleman over here i saw first. Please introduce yourself and please keep questions brief. Thank you. I am nick farmer. Could you speak to the idea of fully Autonomous Vehicles in a shared use environment that is not as a personal car that i own but a fleet vehicle that i use or like the daimler car to go fully autonomous, can deliver packages food deliver people, replace cars busses, taxis in an urban environment. Seems like that paradigm change would be looking at it differently, than trying to replace each individual car, would have more opportunity. I think that when you talk about fleets, this is something were already seeing. Ben mentioned military use, not only drones but Land Vehicles and military looking at fleets there. Theyre definitely looking at this kind of technology. From a consumer perspective, Something Like car to go is a perfect platform for this technology. You see it in washington, d. C. , those of you that travel to other cities w
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And going able to do things that are really manufactured in a superior way. And i think were really obsessed with the way things are made, and learning about processes. Rose on the eve of the day 50 years ago that john f. Kennedy was assassinated, we talked to biographer robert caro about that day in dallas. About 40 minutes Lady Byrd Johnson was to say ken odonnell walks through the door, he campaigned with him all of life, she said seeing the strict enface of kenney odonnell who loved him, we knew. A moment later, another ken diede, mack killduff comes running into the room, runs over to johnson to get orders and says mr. President , its the first time that johnson has been really addressed like that. And at that moment, charlie, he takes command. Rose the craft of design with jony ive and marc newson and the day kennedy died through the eyes and reporting of robert caro when we continue it. Funding for charlie rose was provided by the following additional funding provided by these f