On your screen is senator john thune of south dakota. Theyre holding a field hearing today. Senators are going to learn about automotive innovations, including selfdriving cars. Witnesses include representatives of businesses in the automotive and Autonomous Vehicle field and the head of florida poly tetechnic universi. Theyve just gotten under way. Policymakers must take a careful approach to these new technologies. We must allow innovation to thrive while also ensuring the technology is safe and reliable. We must also refrain from favoring one technology, business model, or type of company over another so as to avoid locking in technology before innovation and market choices can take place. The bipartisan av start act, which senator peters and i introduced, accomplishes these goals by building on the existing Regulatory Framework to prioritize safety through increased reporting and oversight, thus promoting Public Safety and Building Public confidence and trust. At the same time, the
The deputy secretary for driver and Vehicle Services at the Pennsylvania Department of transportation on driverless vehicles. Host reporting this morning that democrats are serious over actions by Senate Democrats and how they handled the shutdown in a result for daca. And Chuck Schumer says there will be no money for a border wall, as part of an agreement that would have resolved the docket issued. Daca issue. That happening on washington in washington. Is go shooting this week in the New York Times reporting that there has been a School Shooting every day since the beginning of this year. We will ask your thoughts and how to best deal with the topic of schoolhootings. We invite you to call various lines. If you are a parent or a student, give us a call at 202 7488000. If you are an educator, 202 7488001. If you are in Law Enforcement, 202 7488002. And for all others, 202 7488003. If you want to post on our twitter feed do so at cspanwj. You can also post our Facebook Page. These are
Cspan. Org, or on our free radio app. Next, we take you to the washington, d. C. Convention center where the senate commerce, science and Transportation Committee held a field hearing today. They looked at emerging innovations in Automotive Industry. This is about two hours. Good morning. One of the privileges of leading a committee with a jurisdiction as broad of that as the commerce committee, sometimes our work takes us off capitol hill and into the real world. In recent years we have held many. While we have not traveled quite herer today, what we are to discuss is no less important. Welcomethat will soon all people interested in the automobile. Generatesbile trillions of dollars, supporting 7 million jobs across all 50 states. This industry is not standing still. It is hard to believe, but the Auto Industry spends more on research than that airs aerospace industries. New technologies such as Automated Vehicles and new Business Models offering mobility as a service are poised to en
Welcomethat will soon all people interested in the automobile. Generatesbile trillions of dollars, supporting 7 million jobs across all 50 states. This industry is not standing still. It is hard to believe, but the Auto Industry spends more on research than that airs aerospace industries. New technologies such as Automated Vehicles and new Business Models offering mobility as a service are poised to enable substantial growth. Key benefits include improved safety, new jobs, new transportation opportunities and reduced congestion. Automated vehicles offer perhaps the largest potential gains in all these areas. More than 37,000 people lost their lives on u. S. Roads, a troubling increase from the year before. Many crashes were the result of human error. Asleephich cannot fall or become distracted, could potentially save thousands of lives every year. May spur economic activity. The wide adoption will spur a new passenger economy worth 7 trillion over the next few decades. To they will pro
To consider who we are as a people. Please bless all our citizens and those who would be citizens with generosity and discernment, that the National Discourse would be a wonder for the world to see and not a time of everwidening divisions. For the members of this wisdom house, we ask and patience that they might Work Together and through the differences that are all too familiar to a new vision of those qualities that might bring us together as one people. Finally, we ask your blessing on the people of texas, puerto rico, the Virgin Islands, california, oregon, washington and montana, all who suffer the ravages of extreme Natural Disasters. Comfort them and strengthen those who labor to bring relief to their hardships. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Men. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. Fo