mr. misener? or mr.-- >> thank you mr. chairman. mr. duncan i agree a company like ours has to take privacy extremely responsibly. we've done it for 20 years now. we'll certainly extend those kinds of privacy protections with amazon prime air which is of course a delivery service, not a surveillance operation. >> mr. geiger? >> if people don't think they have much privacy now they should wait for new class of technologies that will enable very intrusive physical surveillance. that is just coming. i, theÑi examples that you read are indeed troubling. i'm glad that you mentioned in those passages there are other types of surveillance enabled by drones besides just video observation. they could be outfitted array of sensors including cell phone tower emulatetores. federal government used these on tens of thousand of individuals in the past year. in terms of how to provide individuals with that kind of privacy, you know, privacy towards get you some but again limited because it is limited to a reasonable, what is highly offensive to reasona

mr. misener's, the application he was talking about earlier. that does require beyond visual line of sight. that is all manner of inspections that i was mentioning as well. bnsf was mentioned earlier being able to check for split rails in advance of trained. other infrastructure, et cetera. and just if you imagine one of the early applications, early adopters of this technology will be agricultural interest, farmers, looking to all manner of inspection of the property. some of these farms are large of course and so could easily be flying over the property but haven't well beyond line of sight. again basically flying a pattern that a computer is controlling. very low altitude. these are the types of operations that we think, some of them are more complex than others but we think there's a way to advance the technology, to test the technology. the more we are flying, taking him to the level of safety to the current aircraft system, airspace system that we have today, the more dated can collect, the more we contest technologies like detect and avo

mr. misener. on your video if you could have had the teddy bear delivered to nebraska or new jersey, that would have been a great ending for the little guy. >> we're happy to -- >> we can do this. we're multitalented up here. as we look at more logistic networks out there, how do you think that will benefit consumers? >> thank you, madam chair, very much. that logistics -- the improvement of logistics with the more broad transportation infrastructure is important. it affects how they receive the goods they purchase online. we've been trying to improve this for at least 20 years. automation has always been a big part of the amazon solution to this challenge. increasing automation is going to be helpful to making sure consumers get the goods when they need them, but they have a choice. it's a choice at various speeds. we talked about drones. they were really only the way we figured out how to get goods to consumers in less than 30 minutes. we are also offering our customers now a slow delivery alter

mr. misener how i would love to talk with you about droens.ansformative possibility bus sadly i'm coming back down to earth to talk about trucks. your testimony recommends the use of ten feet longer trucks known as twin 33s. the department of transportation recently came out with a study showing it takes these trucks about 22 feet longer to stop. the length -- that's a car length and a half. the larger and heavier trucks are greater -- are the greater destruction -- with where the greater destruction occurs when accidents happen so i have a couple questions on that. one, is has your company done an analysis of the impact of safety? how will these longer trucks impact the crashes? the number of crashes and fatalities? >> so we've been persuaded by the carrier wes work with senator that the 33-foot trucks are going to be safer because there will be fewer of them on the road driving fewer miles any policy choice like this is a balancing of factors, i totally get that. i'm not sure there's particular magic to 33 over say 32 over 34 or particular m