Will have Opening Statements herd, ms. F, mr. Kelly. After that, we will hear from then, after wend have heard from the witnesses, we will go to questions. So with that, i will give the first Opening Statement and again, welcome, everyone. Its interesting, the age we live in, of new technology and communications. The Incredible Technology that we see in take for granted every day, we are hearing a new we are entering a new era in transportation technology. Theres some of the older panelists, members of an audience who remember when you used to open the hood of a car and could take out the various parts and identify everything. Figure outd a phd to what is in there, and its capabilities are just astounding. A lot of safety features and cars we didnt have before, but we today will address the issues relating to, again, what we call the internet of cars and look at some of the implications of that technology. I think some of this was highlighted some time ago when that vehicle was hacked.
In the United States are driven by different standards. Also at the heart of the regulation in this area which over time has become more expensive, not just to deal with expectations that are explicitly articulated, but those that are normative. Is our recognize myself here, can you tell me what that is . Dedicated shortrange radio connections. It was an safety messages between devices. This is being developed by the department of transportation . And a whole bunch of agent ultimate soup. Agencies, suppliers, manufacturers. Andere is my concern, dod va spent over half 1 billion electronicet to Health Records to work together. This four years they said is really hard, will have to go to separate areas. Now we talk about being in industry where you have so much private sector investment, why are we even thinking about the federal government getting involved and doing this . A standard hasnt developed out of the private sector. The thing is probably going to work a little bit better, do y
Call roll at this time. Of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to order can we please have the roll call commissioner courtney commissioner Vice President moran commissioner courtney commissioner kwon and commissioner caen will arrive shortly. Approval of the draft minutes is there a motion to approve the minutes of the 6 additions, deletions, or changes Public Comment . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries next item, please. Item 4 general Public Comment francisco da costa please. Commissioners, i want to wish you all a happy new year so. Happy new year to you. Thank you so we are now amending the taxpayers theyre going to be seeing a lot changes in 2016 whether we like it are not and what im requesting is not too many people have the time to come here time is precious so we all have our own projects and if you see less and less Public Comment here given it is less and less experts from the community i can mention a few like Steve Lawrence and john and anoth
J i understand utg. S. Waste water was the largest earthquake every reported in oklahoma. 5 mnt 27. The impacts of quakes induced by frakingrelated waste water arent limit today oklahoma. There have been quakes in kansas, texas, colorado and elsewhere. In some cases, i think establishing the link to the untrained person might seem obvious. New injection wells start up and then the injection stops and the quake stops. But i understand that its not that simple. You know, its a topic that we might devote an entire hearing to. Ranking member defozio, previously, along with then well, with Ranking Member waxman of energy and commerce. Im pleased they have called for such a hearing. We can touch on the subject, i believe, in this hearing. And that mielgts be helpful. And im sure there were other points that all the witnesses can make about what we have yet to learn. What research we have yet to sponsor. Who studies yet need to be done in earthquakes that continue to happen in usually unpredi
Significant event in philadelphia with amtrak. I want to make sure i pass along our sincere thoughts and prayers. Hopefully have a speedy recovery. The other thing important for us to recognize, 1st responders were on. Immediately. Our deepest thanks. The other thing this is really bad always silver lining. We have the significant events in the United States. Up. You see people helping each other trying to recover can help people get out of the wreckage. That is inspirational. Talking about her experience she looks at her shoe and said, these are my shoes. That is what we need to be doing its. I just wanted to recognize that. Infrastructure week us dot we would hope that infrastructure week was a really. Linda solomon a lot of things. In todays world the whole package is important for us to recognize longterm importance of investing. Investing. We have been working hard for part three or four years now trying to get the country to push it up to look at Infrastructure Investment. Recent