clarence ditlow. >> thank you.ant to begin by saying that hasunsafe at any speed" been one of the best things for public good. there have been 3.5 million lives saved by virtue of the safety standards and bringing the highways to safety. i was at lehigh university getting a degree in chemical engineering. i look upon lehigh and educated them some ten years before. i kind of look upon it as having me and you did as a counterbalance to lee iacocca. i once had lunch with him when working right after another recall. when ralph founded the center for others'safety, along with consumers union, it was one of tacticalreat strategies. he provided the inspiration and consumers union provided the funding. a perfect match. in 1970 i was not there when the center was founded, the staff who were there said the two things that ralph did was he came in with 10,000 consumer complaints. they were stacked up that high. many paper bags. days, we did not have digital complaints. we had paper complaints. so well said, go through all the

privacy, trying to -- trying to ensure that the nation's auto safety regulators, working with clarence ditlow and joan clay brook, make sure nhtsa national highway safety administration, requiring companies to develop regot cars, driverless vehicles, they don't want to comply with federal law, auto safety laws. we're trying to make sure the federal government hues to the mission it's supposed to follow and regulate auto safety for those companies. so we do a lot of different things besides insurance. but i want to move very quickly and just address -- speak to those of you in the audience at the beginning of a possible career in citizen advocacy or thinking about whether to spend the rest of your lives devoted to the public interest. and i've kind of distilled my experience to ten tips that i'd like to convey. first, find a battle and jump in right away. now, there are lots of projects out there. you can be a volunteer to get started. and get a taste of it before you decide. don't think you can't do it or you're not skilled enough to do it. for example, there's a big ballot initiative campaig