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Podcast Archive
Our podcast discusses auto safety issues and technological developments, in hopes of providing consumers and enthusiasts with a better understanding of modern vehicles, safety systems, and current issues in the industry.
A five foot comfort alligator
Why not have a five foot comfort alligator? GM funds Kyle’s $2 billion a year comfort corporation. Speaking of Kyle this week one of his Cruise vehicle ran over a lady and parked on her leg but he still thinks any criticisms of his company are sensationalistic and if we keep doing it he’s going…
Be your own safety driver and police chases
What’s it called when you’re talking about how the Tik Tok generation is stealing Hyundai/Kia’s and at the same someone parks a stolen Hyundai right outside your window? I don’t know either but it happened. Plus we cover rules around police chases, right to repair, more tech-bro nonsense from Kyle, how does mapping software work…
The Chinese forced labor problem
If you’ve bought a car in the last few years odds are that it’s made with slave labor. How’s that for a show opener? Gulp. Plus Elon Musk blames his customers and not his crummy cars, Michael digs into some bills presented to a guy named Gavin, Fred digs into the morality, programmed and not,…
Self Driving Semi’s and your car is peeping on you
The House had a hearing on Self Driving Semi’s and 3 out of 4 panelists thought it was a really swell idea and could you please write laws that make it best for our bottom lines? GM Cruise tries Nashville and claims that NHTSA has approved it’s ugly car without controls, Mozilla finds out that…
Elon mode and more Kyle failures
Do you like to pretend that your car can drive itself? Well… you might be a Tesla owner or the CEO of GM Cruise. Either way please let us know where you might be so we can avoid you. NHTSA applies a special order to Telsa, AV’s are trained on pictures of white men, ARC…
The micron metal hour
Listeners, We really don’t like to pick on the Elon. It’s boring BUT he makes it really easy. This week we explain that the Cyber Truck will never have… well anything he claims, GM Cruise expands their Fire Truck smashers to Raleigh, IIHS tests backseat safety and makes simple suggestions to make motorcycles safer (wear…
Self driving into wet cement
Kyle from Cruise keeps telling everyone that humans are terrible drivers and that his computer cars will save humanity. In the past week his robot taxis have stopped working because they weren’t in cell phone range, crashed into a fire truck and drove into wet cement. Can someone look up Kyle’s DMV record? If these…
Beth Brooke puts dummies in their place
Did you know that those 5 star safety crash tests do not apply to women drivers? NHTSA bases these crash tests on an “average” male and ignores women that have a different skeletal structure and physiology. But don’t worry NHTSA is still researching the issue… of whether women drive? No idea why they are wasting…
Babysitting Self Driving Cars
Self deluded self driving car CEOs continue to claim the safety of their vehicles. Still cannot provide any shred of data to back their claims up. Now the San Francisco Police and Fire Departments are saying they need these AV’s off the road as they are a hazard to emergency first responders. Plus Telsa is…