y jan schakowsky. this hearing is carried by schakowsky. good morning everyone. thanks for joining. us today the subcommittee will hear about potentials for automobile technologies to improve lives and enhanced safety. let me state upfront, innovation and revolutionary transportation technologies do not have to come at the expense of our workers or the domestic manufacturing. hundreds of thousands of americans are employed in the automobile manufacturing sector, and more than 4 million americans work as drivers. as we head into the next era of automobile technology, including autonomy s vehicles, we must ensure we must ensure economic security for the critical workforce and their families. we also must ensure that these vehicles are safe and accessible to improve route 2020 was the worst year of our generation of fatalities and injuries despite a dramatic decrease in the number of cars that are on the road due to, and i think it is likely due to the fact that, drivers h
surely this is an old case, old at least by newspaper standards . the condition had occurred in 2003 and i thought surely people have written about this but when i dug deeper, i saw that it hadn t been covered at all and the reason was that brian regan was arrested two weeks before 9/11 and he was convicted one month after the us invaded iraq so it was almost this story was kind of book ended bythese two major events . and it was sort of lowhanging fruit for me to go after . to rewind a little bit, your interest in going to this cryptology us, do you have a background in science writing so you were comfortable solving into it. as you get to the cryptology section, i think everyone except that hard-core cryptology us are going to say, let me get a cup of coffee, this is serious. can you talk about what was your interest in cryptology before that? were you working on something? i didn t really have a specific interest in cryptology. i m a science writer, i worked at science