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announcer: all month, we are featuring studentcam winners in c-span stark imagery contest for students in high school and junior high. this share, students told is the most urgent issue for the president and congress. our winners are students from the lawn, michigan. students at milan high school. their documentary on a taunus vehicles is entitled "live and let drive." take a look. ♪

>> there are approximately 16 million auto accidents in the united states every year costing the economy over 200 $50 billion. traffic accidents accounted for the death of over 268,000 citizens in 2016. this is a problem self-driving cars can fix. 94% of traffic accidents are caused by human error. this explains the push of companies like gm, ford, and mercedes-benz toward self-driving automobiles. data they work? >> camera systems act as the eyes of the vehicle. identify things like stop light, pedestrians. but they have problem with things like weather and depth. they send out electro magnetic

waves to measure reflection. and toound the vehicle determine if there's anything in the vehicles have. systems are mounted on the roof, spinning at high waves. ofy currently cost upwards 70,000 dollars per unit. these three systems give a taunus vehicles and accurate view of the vehicles around them. -- and accurate view of the vehicles around them. >> connected and a taunus are developed in parallel. a you will start to hear more about the ultimate implementation. >> it is the brain. imagine in internet system working with other systems. it receives and fills request. as you add more devices, it becomes increasingly

complicated. >> how does it manage all of this data? to vehicles ins the immediate area. for example, if my car is breaking rapidly, only vehicles within 200 feet need to know. however, if there is a car -- theg the internet interstate, vehicles as far away as 50 miles need to know. >> the university of michigan has created the a thomas vehicle testing city. vehicleutonomous testing city. >> the reaction time is so fast and they are always watching. even if you do hit the pedestrian, maybe you hit them going one mile or two miles an hour. drastically reduced. >> they try to avoid it. why?

because they always drive the speed limit. canhe landscape of driving really change through a computerized network. you no longer need to stop at intersection. you can cut your starting and stopping by 70%. you should get a massive increase in fuel efficiency. >> think of it as bombs, bends, which take time away from your day. this is far more efficient. all of these methods are great but people still may be uncomfortable with autonomous vehicles. >> some people feel they are in a death trap. they trust this computer to do the driving. others do not think there is anything with them but they really have to give up control. >> baby boomers are ever-conscious of the muscle cars they grew up with. they like being in control. >> and there is a new risk, cyber security.

>> you did not say the magic word. uh, uh, uh. >> it is a terrifying experience to have someone take control of this to 10 and pewter on wheel. >> this man's experience with hackers is both frightening and foreboding for the future. take control of the vehicle, people in cars and in the community are at risk. >> you can bring urban traffic to a hope. you look out and you cannot imagine what is happening because cars are just sort of stopped. >> if you want to make a change of calibration from a different

module, you have to have the right code to do it. it is of the by a computer. you cannot hack in to do it. >> if you get a signal that says i am going 180 miles an hour but other cars are looking at you and say, i do not believe you. you can use those to detect uses.users or fake >> at this point in time we do not have specific regulations. we are living that, again, to the regulators sent to the private sector. >> i have been in automotive for 23 years. [indiscernible] of it a sudden we have these a taunus type driving systems. -- thesea taunus type autonomous type vehicles.

>> we asked the president to get involved. -- saving tensng of thousands of americans lives. opinion.gely on public this relaxed regulatory stance encourages innovation, however it will likely turn opinion against the technology and setback large-scale implementation many years. the congress should work hard to turn that 90% error 20%. dear mr. president, work with congress to prevent 60 million accidents, $250 billion in accidents and over 38,000 deaths every year. >> to watch all of the prize-winning documentaries in this year student camp competition -- studentcam competition, visit studentcam.org. ♪

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