There Auto Be A Law
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.
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…
We would like to cancel your visit.
Ever tried to get a service appointment for your Tesla? Learn how Tesla has an entire department dedicated to making sure you don’t get one. Why’s that? Turns out their customer are getting upset about Tesla claiming a much larger battery range they on offer. Waymo kills off it’s trucking division, California wants privacy laws…
Safety equals Communism!
The wheels on corporate lobbying go round and round, round and round. ‘Congress holds a hearing on how removing safety legislation on autonomous vehicles is the only way to ensure that our children won’t become Communists. Or something like that. Plus Fred explains what those black things your car sits on are. https://www.autosafety.org/av-fan-fictions/