and nhtsa guidelines are illustrative. government policy calls for restrictions of function as a built in system. without corresponding limitations of a portable device. the result, chilling innovation of the built-in system and incentivizing handheld use. so if the driver is looking for guidance and can't plug in their own system, what do they do? oftentimes they pull other iphone or the android, and look down below the dash, they plug in the address they fiddle with the keys, and potentially suffer the consequence. we can't wish the real world away. a policy that isn't comprehensive, across technology and across devices produces unintended consequence. so to close, the future has never been brighter or safer. we stand ready to work with this committee to maximize innovation and to save lives, and we thank you for the opportunity to testify. >> thank you, sir. now mr. jeffrey owens. >> thank you chairman rockefeller, ranking member thune, and members of the commit on science commerce and transportation. as chief technolog

when engaged with nhtsa. it has a regulatory authority and has a hammer during that time that is appropriate. we have the right relationship. it is, we help, data driven. i think we are on course to a great outcome. this is a good news hearing. the future promises really massive gains in safety if we make the right public policy choices, especially on the spectrum issue. >> yeah, which actually brings us in. in other words, we have congressional oversight. i am also on the intelligence committee, and we are meant to have congressional oversight of intelligence, and let me tell you that is the most possible job because government does not want to turn anything over. they all want to protect themselves. companiest think car aren't necessarily that way. in fact, when we had the so- stopd sudden unintended crisis, you remember with weird and other companies, the work other with toyota and companies, the work was good. people change habits durin. the culture of safety of a different sort was developed. unoptimisti

nhtsa has no reports of crashes or injuries. nhtsa says ford told dealers how to fix the issue but hasn't alerted owners. ford owners in ohio and louisiana recently sued ford in federal court, claiming the ecoboost engine is defective because it loses power during acceleration. you're looking atincredibly rarf modern computing history that fetched some heavy prices! an "apple one" computer the first computer ever made by the company and a later model, the apple "lisa" were sold at auction over the weekend. apple co-founders steve wozniak and steve jobs hand- built about 200 of the apple german auction house "auction team breker" told p-c magazine the apple one sold for more than 675- thousand dollars! >> watching gas prices this morning. we've seen gas prices go up in the last few weeks. the national average is sitting at 3-63. california is seeing an average of 4-02 a gallon. that's not the highest in the nation, hawaii is seeing prices this morning of 4-36. here in the bay area. san francisco. sitting higher than the national

they work shoulder to shoulder with the nhtsa engineers. the toyota camry had 300,000 lines of code in their expertise verified by nhtsa home alone on that there were no issues regarding software electronics reliability and an attendant acceleration issues peters the two titles identified by nhtsa. that could've been done without the assistance of nasa. >> final question. are you working on a technology that would not allow someone to text while driving? >> sir, that is frankly one of my most focus areas of emphasis. the one thing we're interested in acting the committee support help on is the opportunity to pull together stakeholders across the industries involved in this space. not all the automakers en masse, but the suppliers and wireless communication companies because while we are very bullish on the program, we think the technical solution where you identify eight drivers on early passengers so come and unlock the drivers on the connect to vehicle frankly is the long-range shot to make sure we distract driving and i'm fixated on that

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it says, nhtsa is aware of the incident and will contact the local authorities who are investigating to determine if there are vehicle safety implications that merit agency action. stay with ktvu for complete coverage of the limo fire tragedy. you can get updates anytime at ktvu.com. >>> three people died early this morning in a mobile home fire in the sonoma county city of cloverdale. the fire started around 1:45 at the home on sherwood circle. authorities say the dead included two adults and a child. they've not released any further information about the victims. this video is just in from chopper 2 when it went to check the scene late this morning. it took firefighters about a half-hour to get the fire under control. the cause is still under investigation. >>> several cars were damaged this morning during a fire in a parking garage at a south bay apartment complex. the latest on the damage and the investigation is coming up. . >>> i'm tracking light showers around the bay area. let's look at storm tracker 2. over the peninsula, we do have a bit of light rain over 280, had highway

until there is more data, the nhtsa also recommends that a driver should be in place to manually operate controls. microsoft is hoping to lure back customers with a reboot of its operating system. windows 8.1, the new name for windows 8, will be easier to navigate. it will allow users to set up software so it displays in a more familiar format, and includes a "start" button. more details will be released in late june. nearly a quarter of u.s. workers are often "sleeping on the job." snoozing costs the economy roughly $63 billion. according to a study, that equates to eleven days per worker. some employers are offering nap rooms to sleepy staffers, but others blame it on laziness. still to come, a controversial traders unplugged as the battle of the sexes lands on the trading floor. that's later on. but first, voting for power: a look at the evolution of corporate boardrooms, next with bill moller. hi, i'm ben affleck, and many actors have played the part of a u.s. serviceman in the movies, but for veterans like james crosby and so many other brave men and women, his service and his sacri

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european car manufacturers banded together to try and lobby the nhtsa and they said this is really notfornia, but only if there ises a -- this might kill you with cancer label on it, right? >> yes. because of prop 65, which is a toxic substance control act, you have to label everything that california deems a toxin. but as it turns out, this is a substance, red dye number 40, that is f.d.a. has said over and over again, this is one of the most widely studied coloring agents is completely fine and safe. so this is something that california in its i if i nate wisdom -- infinite wisdom knows more than the f.d.a. >> steve: it's now safe to get meat prosecute italy. who knew in the '60s there was a disease problem and next thing you know, they put the kabash on it, didn't they? >> yeah, a small victory for regulation nation. one tiny regulation being rolled back. we haven't been able to access the majority of italian cold cuts, salamis for many years because of this regulation. there have been a couple meats that have been able to get in or other large italian manufacturers who have paid fo

-- recognizing that there are costs associated with this, we have two recommendations that call on nhtsa to call on incentive grants to support these programs. >> i understand that there are cost savings both from the government perspective as well as from the personal perspective. where the money get state is not with the costs accrue. that is tough. , just as a comment, and the same sort of a vein in aviation for years, everybody want to do everything all at once. it was not until a much more disciplined methodology for looking at where the effectiveness, which would be thatted and in balance against tom much it cost. the model has worked very hard to drive the accident rate down at in aviation. and recognized by some of the data that there is a lot of confusion in terms of what the numbers do say. the various reports do have a wide variety of effective claims. it is a tough job to sort that out. havinglooking at consented to go to a sobriety checkpoint. it got rained out. i was encouraged by your data 20%ing that it has a effectiveness. it was a greater effectiveness than the vac chan

in 1982 the first year of nits at that -- nhtsa's fars tracking system, 21,113 people died in u.s. crashes involving alcohol-impaired driving. this represented nearly one half of all highway deaths. today, the percentage of deaths due to alcohol-impaired driving is about one-third of all highway fatalities. moving the percentage from one half to one-third of highway fatalities has taken great effort by thousands of dedicated people in many organizations. >> watch more from that meeting as well as comments from ntsb chairman deborah hersman and milwaukee county sheriff david clark joins us on the proposed rules. it begins at 8:00 eastern over on c-span. >>> president obama is in new jersey today to examine the recovery efforts since hurricane sandy struck the region late last year. the president will tour the affected beach communities with new jersey governor chris christie in his first trip back to the area since right after the storm late last october. earlier this year the federal government authorized over $50 billion in aid to new york and new jersey for the relief efforts. th

buy services that longtime career attorney pat the nhtsa has also prepared me well.overnment attorneys how to represent the public interes while this fortunate to represent the board in high-profile cases during my earlier tenure, what made the biggest impact on me with the smaller cases. the cases are the parties have no interest in making ma or engage in ideological debate. instead, they are the cases where the board has a neutral adjudicator brings resolution the parties who just want to have voices heard and their views really considered. these are the cases that dominate the boards docket today has in the past. the overall majority of cases i've participated in serving as democrats and republicans have been unanimous decisions that apply long-standing precedent. the important the cases cannot be overstated. it is through these cases the boards mission of preserving industrial peace. they bring resolution after being a monthly discharge and a further right of an employer to move forward in running his or her business to the fact showed a genuine impasse in negoti