dr. pratt. can you comment on your company is considering the needs of the disability community in the development and deployment of self-driving cars? >> yes. our president decided to change the company's policy on autonomous as a result of meeting with a blind person. the company decided to change it's policy. i want to add one more part. we cannot forget about ageing society. 13% of our population is over age 65. because of the baby boom that franks will grow from 13% to 20%. this is extraordinary things. my sister and i had to take away the keys from my father because he is too elderly to drive. our goal is to make that not have to happen in the future. >> thank you, very much. mr. -- can you answer what volvo is doing for those with disabilities. >> we recognize -- every sunday i meet my father who turned 100 years and he ask when can have this car. we are targeting commuting. >> that's great. mr. owe pack we recently adapted that process they don't even have to have a smartphone to request

dr. pratt? >> so, i run the research lab, so i don't know the particular details of the implementation. but i can speak to what we're doing research on. and so we are working on this issue, and in particular, we're working on systems that monitor the insides of the occupants in a car for any number of things. even if a person is sleeping, it turns out that there is research technology, again, i don't know when it will be fielded, which can amplify the very small motions that happen as a result of heartbeat, and changes in skin temperature as well. so there are ways that in the future we might do it. but i'd be glad to get you more information from the company in terms of when we're planning to field such things. >> we're going to reintroduce our legislation and i would appreciate all the manufacturers to take a look at our bill that would move into regulation. automatic emergency braking is another important safety technology. dr. pratt, in your testimony, you said that automatic emergency braki

dr. pratt. >> chairman, members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. my name is gil pratt. i'm the ceo of the toyota research institute. before working for toyota, i was a program manager in the area of robotics at d.a.r.p.a. tri focuses on the development of artificial intelligence and related technologies. it was formed in january of 2016 with a five-year $1 billion commitment from toyota. tri is located wholly within the united states with its headquarters in palo alto, california, and additional teams in an arbor, michigan, and cambridge, massachusetts. tri is intently focused on the development of autonomous vehicles. we're currently pursuing two halves to autonomy. a system called guardian and a system called chauffeur. under guardian, it's stepping in only when a collision is imminent. under chauffeur, the technology takes over the driving task from the human driver. we're currently testing and refining both guardian and chauffeur. because they ha

dr. pratt. can you comment on your company is considering the needs of the disability community in the development and deployment of self-driving cars? >> yes. our president decided to change the company's policy on autonomous as a result of meeting with a blind person. the company decided to change it's policy. i want to add one more part. we cannot forget about ageing society. 13% of our population is over age 65. because of the baby boom that franks will grow from 13% to 20%. this is extraordinary things. my sister and i had to take away the keys from my father because he is too elderly to drive. our goal is to make that not have to happen in the future. >> thank you, very much. mr. -- can you answer what volvo is doing for those with disabilities. >> we recognize -- every sunday i meet my father who turned 100 years and he ask when can have this car. we are targeting commuting. >> that's great. mr. owe pakpaku. one of the initial challenges was that not every one had a smartphone but we rece

pratt has been on the job as our director of jail house services slightly less than a year and it's been a very good year for us indeed. i don't know if people realize that the jail house services sees 12,500 unique individuals through the jail every year and i think the strengths are in the our leadership and growing linkage to the health network. we heard a report on the true metrics and quality and service scores looking at the implementation of nar can in the jails and linkage for patients with hiv or detected with hiv in the jails and then doing additional assurances to make sure that we have effective transfers from hospital to the jails. regarding the network we heard a lot about how we are screening for gc and chlamydia and have good md communications so i think this is an example -- these metrics are examples how the jail has become not just an isolated entity where people go into the jail but really a point of preventive screening and evaluation and then linkage back to the primary care clinics. we focused a lot on the linkage and the main quality improvement component the jail

pratt has been on the job as our director of jail house services slightly less than a year and it's been a very good year for us indeed. i don't know if people realize that the jail house services sees 12,500 unique individuals through the jail every year and i think the strengths are in the our leadership and growing linkage to the health network. we heard a report on the true metrics and quality and service scores looking at the implementation of nar can in the jails and linkage for patients with hiv or detected with hiv in the jails and then doing additional assurances to make sure that we have effective transfers from hospital to the jails. regarding the network we heard a lot about how we are screening for gc and chlamydia and have good md communications so i think this is an example -- these metrics are examples how the jail has become not just an isolated entity where people go into the jail but really a point of preventive screening and evaluation and then linkage back to the primary care clinics. we focused a lot on the linkage and the main quality improvement component the jail

pratt has been on the job as our director of jail house services slightly less than a year and it's been a very good year for us indeed. i don't know if people realize that the jail house services sees 12,500 unique individuals through the jail every year and i think the strengths are in the our leadership and growing linkage to the health network. we heard a report on the true metrics and quality and service scores looking at the implementation of nar can in the jails and linkage for patients with hiv or detected with hiv in the jails and then doing additional assurances to make sure that we have effective transfers from hospital to the jails. regarding the network we heard a lot about how we are screening for gc and chlamydia and have good md communications so i think this is an example -- these metrics are examples how the jail has become not just an isolated entity where people go into the jail but really a point of preventive screening and evaluation and then linkage back to the primary care clinics. we focused a lot on the linkage and the main quality improvement component the jail

his parents are tess pratt to be with him. dr. sanjay gupta with an update. >> reporter: last week i travelled to michigan to meet this sweet 2-year-old boy. a year ago he was living in a refugee camp when a fire struck and left him permanently disfigured. they were granted visas for care at children's hospital in boston. in her third trimester of pregnancy, dilly's mom stayed behind. when it was time for her to give birth, the dad travelled back to iraq, leaving the son in the care of a kind-hearted volunteer he had just met. >> do they know how many surgeries he will need? >> they said up to a year. he is growing. he has to loosen up the scar tissue. >> reporter: he needs this care? >> this eye, this is the main concern. >> reporter: in december, when dilly's new baby brother was old enough to travel, they applied for his visa, so the family could reunite with dilly. the application was denied. now, when the couple appealed the decision in january, the baby's visa was denied again and this time their visas were revoked because t