What is the story you tell . The story, to tell us how america morphed into a car culture to everyone wanting to get into cars and go places. I had not known until i started researching that henry ford and Thomas Edison were at the forefront of this. Idea come to you for telling the story at this time . This is my 22nd book. What i do when i try to do when i write nonfiction books is to go everywhere where the people i write about went. Id rather drive and that way you really get a sense of place. Somewhere along the line in the 30,000 or so miles i drive every year i started wondering how we got to be a country, a culture where we take for granted and we can get in a car and go anywhere we want to. I thought it would be a good idea to write a book about that and as always happens when you look into history, theres more to it than you ever expected. Susan your book begins and ends with someone thats a minor character, jeff bixby. We are going to show his picture on screen. Who was he a
Connected vehicles or autonomous selfdriving vehicles. Department of transportation thinks of this as connected automation. Its really both. They both give you sort of added safety. Connected vehicles or basically v to v, vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to infrastructure, v to x or anything else, basically theyre all going to be able to talk. What we know is studies so far suggest that even two applications of v to v could prevent 600,000 crashes and save 1,000 lives. So it has huge opportunity overall. Potentially 80 of crashes that dont involve an impaired driver could be prevented with v to v. So we have actually introduced a rule making which has been accepted by omb for review just to try to set up a consistent piece of equipment that would be used for the whole system in the United States. Okay. When do you anticipate this being online . Or you know, are constituents the availability. Give me a timeline on that. Right now its been accepted by omb as under review. Thats kind of where
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Police have narrowed they manhunt to two suspects on the run. The two brothers were seen in a small town northeast of paris. Police are conducting housetohouse searching in that town now. A third suspect has turned himself into police. Meanwhile tensions are rising across europe with a suspicious eye cast on the Muslim Community after yesterdays attack. France has the largest Muslim Community in europe. 5 million out of a population of 65 million. The dark colors are the populations of muslims at more than 5 . Where are like the kouachi brothers who police are looking for. French born citizens with familiar list from nigeria or other countries. Rightwing parties have already seized on europes faltering Economic Growth to push oh eventually antiimmigrant, and sometimes antimuslim agendas. They are wasting no time to garner support from an increasingly suspicious public. The death of 12 innocents yesterday. In its own way that story is being overshadowed by the symbolism of the tragedy.
To get ready for this conversation and the reds and speeches you have been giving lately and discovered one of the time you told me youre about to be a grandfather the fourth time. And red tell people i covered the Bush White House they think any your brother but i meant george h. W. Bush said it had the privilege to go to kennebunkport there is room there for children and grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. With my dad and my first granddaughter she is three years old and trilingual. Her name is a georgia whole leonel walker bush. [laughter] her nickname is 41. She represents the new america in the new america is america hopes that does not have dash as. Where youre working and your effort to is your definition not the identity political form. [laughter] since taxes are american. My wife is from mexico item texan from birds eat to see in drug is the canadian. Her parents were born in iraq. That is the america we should aspire to not the one where costs we defied ourselves to find wh