Yes. Again, I think the epidemiologic trend sort of supports that. The largest number of injuries occur around the bus and not in the bus, with respect to crashes. That's just due to the fact that most kids go to and from school, as I mentioned, at low speed on city streets, and they are transported very safely.
In terms of broader recommendations from that perspective, I'm certainly not an expert in the technologies that exist, and I'd probably defer to other colleagues with respect to how we make the buses safer, but I would actually implore the committee to look at that as a primary motivator.
In terms of absolute number of lives and morbidity, the biggest bang for your buck is going to be in making sure that when kids get off the bus, when kids are walking around the bus and when kids are going to and from school, from that end, the part where they are pedestrians, they're actually at the highest risk.
The idea that with the technologies that exist today a kid can get hit by the bus that they just walked off becomes more and more unacceptable in my mind, especially when we now know.... As we can see in passenger cars, most of us probably drive cars that have rear-view cameras now. The idea of hitting someone behind me if I have a camera now is almost unthinkable, whereas 10 years ago that was an unfortunate occurrence.
I would certainly encourage the committee to look into that in particular. Certainly strengthening rules, safety and things that we can do for kids when they're on the bus is very important, but if we're trying to impact the most safety for the most kids, it's going to be when they're around and off the bus.