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Transcripts For KCSM Overheard With Evan Smith 20161008

Audience cheering and applause mister secretary, welcome. Thank you very much evan. [evan] an honor to have you here. Its great to be here. Let me ask you to grade the nations Transportation System dont grade on a curve, i want hard grading like you used to get at davidson, and at nyu law school, i want you to do elite grading here. If you had to assess the health and the well being of the nations Transportation System, what grade would you give it . Well, i think itd be about a d. [evan] itd be a d . Yeah. You run your department, really . Youre a hard selfgrader. Well, you know what, there are a lot of reasons why and frankly, none of them have to do with me. [evan] you inherited it. audience laughs is that what it is . Yeah, exactly, i inherited this problem. anthony laughing but you own it, so [anthony] i do own it. What are the reasons that you would give t ....

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Transcripts For KCSM Overheard With Evan Smith 20160528

Mister secretary, welcome. Thank you very much evan. [evan] an honor to have you here. Its great to be here. Let me ask you to grade the nations Transportation System dont grade on a curve, i want hard grading like you used to get at davidson, and at nyu law school, i want you to do elite grading here. If you had to assess the health and the well being of the nations Transportation System, what grade would you give it . Well, i think itd be about a d. [evan] itd be a d . Yeah. You run your department, really . Youre a hard selfgrader. Well, you know what, there are a lot of reasons why and frankly, none of them have to do with me. [evan] you inherited it. audience laughs is that what it is . Yeah, exactly, i inherited this problem. anthony laughing but you own it, so [anthony] i do own it. What are the reasons that you would give this system a d . Well, there ar ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Politics And Public Policy Today 20160126

Group, Motor Vehicle crashes is the largest, leading cause of death within the age ranges. Basically until you get to the age where you start having health problems. Motor vehicles is one of the leading areas where you have a chance of dying. So that is essentially why we come at this. Why were so excited about this. Vehicle to vehicle, i mentioned at the beginning, i think theres been a lot of talk about both automation and vehicletovehicle technologies. For us, we dont look at it as an either or. Its an and both. Theyre not mutually exclusive technologies. They compliment each other. The dsrc complements a lot of technologies being developed on the automated selfdriving front. They shouldnt be looked at as competing technologies. They shouldnt be looked at as both doing the same thing. They both complement each other and will work to further the safety benefits. Another area i wanted to talk about was, i started by laying out why ....

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