Good morning. Id like to call the subcommittee on Digital Congress and Consumer Protection to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Again, good morning and welcome to the first hearing of the 115th congress for the Digital Congress and Consumer Protection subcommittee. It is a pleasure to be with you today. Before we get started i want to changer name burgess and vicechairman for the work they did inon the subcommittee and recognize the new vice chair, the gentleman from mississippi, glad to have you on board and working forward to advancing an agenda that creates jobs and puts consumers first. I want to recognize the gentle lady from illinois, our Ranking Member, we will be working with her this congress and looking forward to work in a bipartisan fashion to grow the economy and protect consumers. As chairman, i look forward to working with all the members of the subcommittee to continue exploring areas in the Digital Academy creating new o
Auto executives testified about their work on selfdriving cars, testing the cars themselves and safety of government regulation. [ indistinct chatter ] good morning. Id like to call the subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Again, good morning and welcome to the first hearing of the 115th congress for the Digital Congress and Consumer Protection subcommittee. Its a pleasure to be here with you all today. Before we get started, i want to thank the chairman for the work they did in the last congress here on the subcommittee. I want to recognize the new vice chairman of the subcommittee, the gentleman from mississippi. Glad to have you on board. Also looking forward to working to advance an agenda that creates jobs and puts consumers first and i want to recognize the gentle lady from illinois, our Ranking Member. I appreciate well be working with her this congress. I look forward to wo
You can move it back or further up. You can make it suburban or urban. We have many different road types, intersections. Basic principle is that you are able to repeat the testing in a consistent manner. What is your goal with all of this testing . Our goal is to help all of the corridors quarters in this industry. Who are some of the stakeholders . Who are involved in this research . A lot of stakeholders. You look into the Automotive Industry and you have your automobile manufacturers including chrysler and gm. You also have all of their tier ones and startups in the area. Withe communicators spoke the director of the university of michigans Mobility Transformation Center which runs them city. Which runs m city these cars do not coordinate with one another except that you look at the size of the car in front of you, the brake light and the turn signal. That is the only communication. But communication can be so much richer and more efficient if we start to have a communication opport
This week the communicators goes to the university of michigan near detroit where Car Companies are using a new test site called mcity. Car makers are experimenting with technology that allows cars to talk to each other and roads and traffic lights so there will be fewer traffic accidents. We spoke with a transportation analyst who studies this technology and with the director of the university of michigan Mobility Transformation Center. Host so, debra bezzina, where are we right now . Guest we are at the university of michigan in what we call mcity. It was built specifically to test, develop connected and Automated Vehicles. Host and this is a fake storefront in your background here, right . [laughter] guest this is a fake storefront. Basically, it can create different scenarios for connected and Automated Vehicles. And most of them youre trying to target the ones that are difficult, and you want to test and be able to repeat. When youre out on the street, its hard to repeat consisten
This week the communicators goes to the university of michigan near detroit where Car Companies are using and it test site called mcity to tryout new technology. Carmakers art spearman did with technology that allows cars to talk to each other and talk to roads and traffic lights so there will be fewer traffic accidents. We spoke with a transportation analyst who studies this technology and with the director of the university of michigans Mobility Transformation Center. Host Debra Bezzina where are we right now . Guest we are at the university of michigan in what we call mcity. Mcity was built specifically to test, develop connected and Automated Vehicles. Host and this is a store in your background. Guest this is a storefront. Basically you can create different scenarios for connected and Automated Vehicles and trying to target the ones are difficult. You want to test and be able to repeat so when you are out on the street its hard to be able to repeat consistently so if youre behind