network. maybe a little jazz with mr. parsons. basketball, wind, jazz, who has got a better day than dick parsons? erik: that is what is ahead. let us look at what is making headlines right now. here s our news in focus. china and russia have strengthened the energy ties. the two sides have increased their guess applies from siberia to china. the people s bank of china use it as the central bank cuts it rate by 20 basis points. north korea says it has successfully tested a submarine launched ballistic missile. yesterday, pyongyang threatened to attack the south korean warship. and plunged the 17% on one day of treads. the early forecast had a climate. the avengers are still winning the battle at the box office for second straight weekend, raking in more than $77 million. stephanie: i didn t see the avengers this weekend. erik: i did. stephanie: and? erik: mmm. stephanie: you don t have to like it. the teams who are seeing it are going to get the games and th
tech features? blind spot detection as well as prevention. we re already seeing that on a number of vehicles. night vision collision mitigation and avoidance systems well camera and rear-view mirror systems. think about it all of these are basically out there in the market already and we ve seen them in other cars so we re comfortable with them already. by comparison the study found just 19% of those studied or surveyed i should point out, 5,300 people surveyed only 19% want autonomous drive cars right now and just 17% want in-car wireless connectivity. most interesting is that when i talked with the study s author mandy, she says when it comes to looking at new cars and you ask people what do you want, what system do you want in the car as far as the connectivity system and how it matches up with your phone, they want to check their phone first. if they have an apple, they want to go with the car that has apple features. this they have a google, they will say i want android