thank you
hello and terrific Tuesday everyone I'm
Coy and I'm grateful to be spending part
of this day with you right here on CNN
10. let's get our engines running today
by fueling up our minds with some news
on the road are we getting closer to
having our cars monitored and controlled
by the government the infrastructure law
passed last year gave the transportation
department three years to craft a
mandate that new vehicles feature
alcohol impairment detection technology
the national Transportation safety board
the federal agency responsible for
conducting independent accident
investigations is recommending alcohol
detection and calling for car makers to
be incentivized to put speed limiters in
new cars speed limitation could come in
the form of a simple audible or visual
warning or even technology that would
physically slow the vehicle down despite
what the driver is doing proponents say
that it will make roads safer opponents
say that it's an attack on our freedom
what do you all think according to the
National Highway Traffic safety
administration 32 people die of
alcohol-related collisions every day
more than 11 000 per year with
fatalities climbing five percent last
year more now from CNN correspondent
Pete muntin who got a ride inside of one
of the vehicles in New York a state that
already has the new technology in place
here we go in this electric car A Lead
Foot can only get so far it's equipped
with intelligent speed assistance that
means the car knows the speed limit here
is 20 miles per hour and it won't let
you go above it
so I'm pressing the pedal but you see
actually the numbers going down driving
me is New York City Deputy Mayor Mira
Joshi the city is the first in the U.S
to try speed limiter technology in 50 of
its fleet vehicles we need to be at the
Forefront there's no reason today with
so much technology and so much awareness
that anybody should die at the hands of
an automobile Federal data shows more
than 20 thousand deaths on our roads in
the first half of this year it is one
reason why in its latest safety
recommendation the national
Transportation safety board is calling
on the federal government to start
incentivizing car makers to put speed
limiter systems in new cars we have to
remember these aren't just numbers these
are people who have lost their lives New
York's speed limiter program works
through something called telematics
stored data on local speed limits is
cross-referenced with a car's GPS
position software in New York's cars
gives the driver an alarm
yeah oh or simply just cuts off the
accelerator when you reach the speed
limit it's called a dead pedal this
system does have an override if you
press this button you can accelerate
beyond the speed limit for 15 seconds in
case you need to merge or speed up to
meet the flow of traffic if somebody's
in the fast lane driving too slow then
to me that caused more accidents than
driving fast too it feels kind of
intrusive and invasive I think from a
regulatory standpoint I think it might
be overstepping some bounds I think the
average consumer is going to see this as
an overreach by the government in
industry expert Carl Brauer says it will
be up to car makers to accelerate safety
without putting the brakes on sales I
think a move like this is certainly a
sign of the future it's a preview of
Coming Attractions and probably an
unavoidable one a change can't come soon
enough for Juan Polito I'm very hopeful
they take it serious and they actually
do make the changes his wife and kids
were killed by an oncoming speeding
drunk driver a crash that served as
inspiration for the NTSB calling for
Speed limiter systems it's gonna save
lives it's going to prevent more
accidents from happening and less
families having to go through what I'm
going through
10 second trivia velocipede hobby horse
and running machine were all early
nicknames for what invention treadmill
bicycle golf cart or elevator
answer is the two-wheeled bicycle
evolved and improved over the course of
a century thanks to several inventors
sticking with our transportation theme
today I'm going to introduce you now to
Dustin Lafont a former Middle School
history teacher whose non-profit front
yard bikes helps thousands of kids in
Louisiana turn bicycles into vehicles of
opportunity the program teaches students
how to build their own bikes and gives
them academic and job training
opportunities meet now Dustin Lafont
foreign
our kids in south Louisiana grew up
knowing they have to be resilient from
day one they tie stay together
we have a lot of storms
we have such poverty
there's not enough resources for
education for school not enough food or
nutrition
we have a sobering murder rate very high
crime rate in Baton Rouge if you look at
the national ranks we're at the bottom
of a lot of them inside let's go let's
go we could probably get you a whole new
stem with a bar that has new grips is
that what you would like the most
something like that there's always this
Ingenuity we can make do with less and
we can be creative and do more with it I
want you to do this with me all right
can you grab onto it
and there we go
all throughout my time at LSU I was
paying my way so I just knew that if I
was going to get to campus I was going
to do it by a bike and if my bike was
going to break well I better learn to
fix it
one kid on the street from me had a
broken bike
so I told him I'll make you a deal I
will provide you the tools and I will
teach you how to do this
I thought that was my you know Good
Samaritan deed being a good Cajun
neighbor and that would be the only time
I would ever build a bike like that but
the next day I met his brother you know
then I met his sister then I met 15 of
his best friends who started coming to
my house every day looking for tools and
bike pumps and bike parts
kids would come after school and we
would pull everything out and have this
outdoor open classroom in a yard
at that point people in the neighborhood
just called us the front yard bike shop
okay after getting my masters I went to
teach Middle School history there was
hundreds and hundreds of kids who had no
extracurricular Outlet in Middle School
they needed a space and a place to
belong
nothing was more infuriating than seeing
a kid in my class and then one day that
desk is empty because they were expelled
I really want to teach that kid I want
to see them get to that accomplishment
our program is really open to anybody
who would like to access it to build a
bike we want any kid of any age to come
learn mechanics and build it earn it I
want you to take your lever and running
around all the way there you go so now
we have to insert your tube next we have
amazing talented wonderful kids
who build and put in sweat and put in
energy and put their all to making what
they hope to be the vehicle of
opportunity
we've seen over 2 000 kids participate
in our programs I'm proud of you I love
you guys I want to announce the winners
in our space
our students get opportunity to see
themselves as Builders creators and
designers dreamers there you go that's
all right it starts to build on this
thought of affirming who they are
but they're a wonderful person but
they're a person that makes the world
better but they are beautiful
and here's something to talk about for
today's 10 out of 10. it looks like it's
straight out of a spy movie this massive
yacht nearly half a football field long
has open-air dining a sprawled out Sun
Deck with a boat a full swimming pool
but it transforms seals up and becomes a
fancy schmancy submarine too you and 120
of your closest peers can dive 650 feet
Beneath the Sea for up to four days at a
time unfortunately it costs about 25
million dollars so dry land looks just
fine too that's about all I have time
for today remember you are all more
powerful than you know before I go I
want to give a special shout out to a
crew from Wichita Kansas the Sunflower
State Hamilton Middle School sending us
to love and we're sending it right back
at you that's what I'm talking about I'm
koi and this is CNN 10.