rosalind chin, bloomberg, china. father of the ipod, more from "bloomberg west," next. ♪ emily: steve was not the only person i spoke with about driverless cars this year. i also spoke to the nest ceo. >> i think you will see some dramatic changes the way we think about these cars and the accessibility in terms of the price points. we are 7-10 years away from a massive switchover. if you think about a car, a car has batteries, a computer, and mechanical structure. if you look at an iphone, it has the same things, even has a motor in it. the hard stuff is connectivity and how cars could be self-driving. when you look at google's self-driving program or the alleged apple thing, it is looking at it through the lens of software first. emily: did you talk to steve about the car? what did you talk about? >> we had a couple of walks. this was in 2008. what would we build? we were just crazy, what would a dashboard be? what would seats be? how would you power it? we are so busy, so constrained. it would be great to do it, bu

think you so much for that rosalind chin. if you get more on that story on toshiba and the rest of the day's news right here on bloomberg.com. we will in-depth reports of market data and stories you may have missed on bloomberg today. back to the markets right now because it is looking at several other things as we get into the thick of things this monday. just some things here and. look at how oil has been trading it depends on energy prices. we continue to see it get pummeled out. 1.2%. it's between new york right now roughly about two bucks. we did not get anything tangible prices will rebound. prices are too low and fundamentals are down. he expects prices to rally area he's not short of giving a price. a lot of analyst are pointing to an oversupply. 3645 is your level. have a look at crude. a two dollar spread. another piece of news worth active we had the more oil rigs in the u.s.. we had it rise by 17. nowhere near levels of peak oil. that is continuing to drive oil prices. also up is exports. 7.4, let me get that figu

those are the top corporate headlines, i'm rosalind chin.t a month to go before the presidential election in taiwan, and they say the leading -- candidate is trailing by as much as 18 points. our chief spoke to stephen engle. he says they have lost touch with the younger generation. >> the meeting is really a milestone for relations. if they could be elected, they can keep going forward, which means we will have not only reporter:we will have at their meeting next year. how will your policies be different? what we are seeing in the poll numbers, the handshake did not give the party a boost. did you expect it to? this.id not expect i mentioned to people, this is the right thing to do. i don't think this meeting as a direct impact on the election. people will make a choice. --re's no difference between they already know. reporter: as chairman of the party, you must have considered the risk to the downside given the political climate and pull numbers now. we know the reaction in taiwan when the other candidate made comments prior to the electio