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The number is going down. >> reporter: joining is new york city deputy mayor. the city is the first in the u.s. to try speed limiting technology in its fleet vehicles. >> we need to be in the forefront. there's no reason that anybody should die at the hands of an automobile. >> reporter: federal data shows more than 20,000 deaths on our roads in the first half of this year. it is one reason why in its latest safety recommendation the national transportation safety board is calling on the federal government to start incentivizing carmakers to put speed limiter systems in new cars. >> we have to...

Of data that all put together will gives us a clear picture of what happened. some of the inputs are date and time, gps position, heading, and speed. there are two microphones on the bridge where you can hear the captain and any of his officers talking. we can see what he issues as orders as to rudder position and throttle, and we also can see what the actual rudder position is and the engine speed. in addition, there's radar data. there are indicators as to whether watertight or fireproof doors have been opened. there's an ek cho sounder that measures depth. all of the alarms on board are wir...

Tech experts, but this sounds like a decent idea. >> sounds so simple. and it would work. that's what's so crazy about it. when you go to the store and you buy the new iphone and you turn it on and you left your password in, all your stuff comes back. now, granted, we are in large metropolitan area, we have excellent cell coverage. so that's a different story. but i get that we're talking about 10,000 aircraft at a time flying over. but we're also talking about voice and data, which is very not a lot of bandwidth would be required. and if you can have wi-fi on board, tv signals to these airpla...

Bobbing up and down out of the surface. >> one thing that is frustrating is the objects in the satellite images were taken four days ago and they may be difficult to locate at this point but they are believed to be as large as 78 feet wide. right now, officials are calling it this their best lead. however there is reportedly poor visibility in the area and the waters there are believed to be much deeper than originally thought and talking about two and a half miles deep. young also spoke about what happens if the planes are able to locate and identify debris. >> the most likely scenario is an ...

>> there have been no sightings yet. >> [ inaudible ] >> do they pick them up? >> the most likely scenario is that an aircraft will find an object, if it is findable. and then report back at an accurate gps position and they would proceed to the area and attempt to see it. that would be our first chance to get a close-up look at whatever the objects might be. and progressively advance the identification of whether they're associated with this search or not. [ inaudible ] >> we were provided it from the australian ago this morning. but i might ask the air commander to speak about the