mary "missing" louise cummings, director of humans and autonomy lab and duke robotics at duke universityso, welcome to all of you. thank you for participating today. we'll start on my left and your right with dr. urmson and then proceed as each of you complete. and if you could, at least as close as possible, stay to the five-minute time allotment so we have ample time for members to ask questions, because i think we'll have good participation today. so, thank you all for being here. dr. urmson. >> thank you, chairman thune, ranking member nelson and members of the committee. thank you for inviting me to testify today about the potential for self-driving cars to improve the lives of people everywhere. my name is chris urmson, and i've been leading the technology development of google's self-driving car program since 2009. the video we would have shown earlier captures many of the reasons why we're excited about this technology. nhtsa estimates that 38,000 people were killed on america's roads last year and 94% of accidents involve human error. self-driving cars can help us change that. n