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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