In fact, some of the countries, such as Australia, are adopting it, or have adopted a different system, which, I understand, more closely parallels our own. Are you familiar with the success or failure that the U.K. and Australia have had recently, over the last years? We've heard evidence from other witnesses, before you and Mr. Stoss, that it's been tremendously successful. In fact, the safety ratings of these countries have gone up as a result of SMS. And they've found ways to prevent accidents, which seems to make more sense—being preventive rather than fixing it after the fact, when it's too late.
On February 19th, 2007. See this statement in context.