Toe but we are using this share information among each other and Industry Partners but we are trying to encourage and enable the voluntary gathering of these Industry Partners with safety coalitions on the Standard Development organizations. And exciting standards being developed today based on the past. Its very important to have transparency so that consumers know what they are buying like when they buy a car, they know they are paying a certain amount more and they get an automatic brake system or a backup camera so there are different gradations of safety and they can spend money on these different technologies. Bringing all this together, i think we are seeing a rich outcome of many industry artan is rushing to prove safety and rushing to figure out better ways to do it and to set standards for it. Think ofle, did you this . How did you resolve it . These are routine checks that the industry can develop and we work with them so we have a hollow stick approach to safety a holistic approach to safety. We want the best technology so that the world will gravitate around our approach safety which has been our message all along. The second question is for you talking about the exemption process described by federal statutes. If you look to change that policy, do you need to go through congress . Vehicle way automatic manufacturers are using that technology today. Provides uste latitude and we will exercise that latitude in a way we believe maximizes safety and accommodates appropriate innovation. Instance, there is a cap of 2500 vehicles that can be exempted and thats something we cannot change as a regulatory matter. Thats something for congress to decide. On the other hand, we can streamline the process. I think this administration is interested in streamlining the processes and focus on the things that matter and reduce the unnecessary paperwork and time delay. Lets get to the substance as quickly as we can. For us, the exemptions process is primarily about safety equivalency, how do we determine whether the proposed new design meetvehicle which does not our Safety Standards which we established over the years, how do we determine that has at least an equivalent level of safety . Area where the two modes are overlapping in terms of the opportunities and challenges that innovation present. Back at what is the intent, the safety intent of the standard . Level, how isal the safety case being resolved in the proposed petition for an exemption . Its something that takes time. Our first view and we are learning our process. Anything, over time, the learning curve will probably move faster but right now, we want to exercise appropriate care and caution to ensure that and uppprove a vehicle to 2500 vehicles, if they can enter the stream of commerce. We want to make sure that consumers and other entities where we get into one of these vehicles, we want to make sure that you are just as safe in that vehicle as if you or i were in any other vehicle. The benefit challenge right now is that our focus on the Research Side is really on the fundamentals what is the being resolved in the standard and how are we resolving that in this petition . My last question i will highlight a point that not only are we talking to congress and testify before congress but when we talk about the bill that was passed by the house on the one being considered by the Senate Commerce committee, we are paying attention to what they are looking for and what their understanding of their own authorities are. The former administrator is over at the Commerce Committee today so we are working closely with our partners in congress to make sure we are all thinking the same way. Thats something i feel comfortable with. Your final question what does your 2020 look like . I will start. Busy and ims very very grateful for that. It looks like we are closing out our Integration Pilot Program and finishing what we started there. Preparing for one of the next set of challenges in terms sightond visual line of and getting operations up and running. I would say the third component is preparing for the integration of urban air mobility. Our 2020 very exciting. I didnt talk about this before but we are putting in place a backup system for satellite based gps. The satellite gets knocked out by an electromagnetic storm or military action in them then the Navigation System on your car will continue working. We put out a request for proposal and we got 20 different technologies and we are testing at our center on cape cod and by may, we will have the results of these tests. We will decide what is the best technology. The process will be finished by august and we Hope Congress will fund what ever is picked. This is the most important thing we are doing in the office of research and technology. It has Just National security implications. The second important question is will we be able to protect the 5. 9 band for Traffic Safety. Be openent period will and we hope, in the end, the entire 75 megahertz will be kept for Traffic Safety so that the traveling public can be safe and we will have more Intelligent Transportation systems and lower congestion and lower emissions. We are also excited about our new center for highly Automated Systems excellence. Its a new center for excellence thats being run by the office of research and technology. It will be a resource to all the different modes. Its for automation safety. We are very much looking forward to setting it up and working with our team in boston which has the highest level of Transportation Research in the country. Those of the three things on our list and i didnt even repeat what i said before about the new University Transportation centers that we are enthusiastic about. Its hard to follow that one. This is an exciting year and i think there are many opportunities this year. On the innovation space, weve 10 rulemakings going on now. I hope we will have published by this time next year, i hope we will have published several npr ms and maybe a final rule or two. Something ihis, havent talked about much today is incap. We announced a few months ago that we are taking a fresh look at this and we believe it is a tremendous opportunity to advance safety in ways that are not regulatory. It taps into Market Forces which are way more powerful than any regulation. Consumers value safety, automakers know consumers value safety, when the Safety Standards, the five safety ratings, when those are updated, automakers will change their manufacturing process. That will lead to safer vehicles, more crashworthiness, more advanced Safety Technology will be incorporated. Way toly, we will find a act best we can and future proof it so we dont have to reset the grades every two years. The a difficult process and team showed me the roadmap to completing this and i cant imagine how many publications are involved. Its an arduous process but its deliberative and exciting. Our team is really excited and its one of the few things that the active administrator gets tooems, and the Safety Advocates call and say they are excited about it so its nice to bring everyone in on it. s 50th anniversary this year. Weike to tell my team that have a long way to go, over 36,000 for tallies fatalities is unacceptable. Whenook back 50 years ago we were first formed coming out of federal highways and they were more than 50,000 fatalities on the roads. At that time, more americans were being killed on the roads then were killed in vietnam. Abouttality rate today is one quarter of what it was 50 years ago. Correctly,hat math thats well over 100,000 fatalities we would be experiencing every year if we still had that same rate. True that more americans are being killed on the road than work killed in vietnam . Its still falling behind but in perspective, america was a smaller country than it was 50 years ago. You want to step back and remind yourself of everything weve done. Its state Highway Safety departments, our First Responder developerss the because new cars are safer, its the consumer advocates like m. A make Impaired Driving socially unacceptable. It was pretty common 50 years ago for people to drive under the influence and it wasnt taken seriously and now its taken more seriously and we have brought the numbers down. We have a long way to go and we have come a long way as well. Only some of error technologies is coming up but we are also excited about things like the dads program which can detect alcohol on a drivers breath. 10 years from now, im convinced that we will look back and say we effectively have put driving under the influence to an end. Of technology is tremendous but there is still a lot of research and work to do on that but we are getting closer. Program closely on that and thats an opportunity to save 10,000 lives per year. Its an exciting year at nitsa and we will do some events and plug into different communities and remind everybody not just about safety but all the great things we have accomplished as a nation over the last 50 years on our roadways. I am excited about the work we will be doing together. The efforts the council is taking as we approach new Transportation Technology and taking the lessons we learn and shaping the future and the comprehensive plan where we tied together the Research Policy and rulemaking initiatives. The thing i am most excited about is in this room on wednesday at 12 45 p. M. After the chairmans lunch, secretary elaine chao will be speaking and providing a great number of discussions and talking points and we hope to see you all there. Please join me in thanking my fellow analysts and thank you all for being here. [applause] [video clip] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org]