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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.
Not a useful observation
Full EV’s or hybrids? That’s the question we start of this week with. NHTSA and Congress are starting to, maybe, kinda, sorta work on outdated legislation and rules around self driving cars, Kyle from GM Cruise releases an ad that would have him be failed by Fred’s 8th grade teacher and a couple of recalls.…
I don’t drive. I don’t care about those things.
Californian’s! July 13th is the day to make your voice heard on autonomous vehicles. Your state wants them everywhere but the local people don’t want ’em. And AV’s don’t understand traffic cones. New cars are really expensive to repair, Toyota claims it is far ahead in solid state batteries, Telsa still Tesla’ing and Tau of…
All the torque
What’s torque? Listen and you can find out. And it’s not safe to be a pedestrian, San Francisco is maybe pushing back against robo-taxis, NHTSA proposes that heavy trucks should use AEB and Recall Roundup. This weeks links: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/06/pedestrian-deaths-rose-in-2022-some-states-more-dangerous-than-others/ https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/06/23/report-provides-more-reasons-to-rein-in-supersized-suvs-as-if-you-needed-more https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-06-22/san-francisco-robotaxis-interfere-with-firetrucks-los-angeles-is-next https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/22/tesla-crashes-self-driving-musk/ https://www.ahwatukee.com/opinion/article_563f5f4c-10fa-11ee-aa9a-a7e24cde7586.html https://www.thedrive.com/news/vw-ceo-admits-frustrating-golf-id-4-interiors-did-a-lot-of-damage https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/heavy-vehicles-automatic-emergency-braking-proposed-rule https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V431000 https://www.carscoops.com/2023/06/nhtsa-investigating-whether-ford-botched-runaway-explorer-recall/ https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2023/INOA-RQ23002-8721.PDF https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22V255-2498.PDF https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V199-9172.PDF
Picking your nose while reading a book and driving a car
Voters in Massachusetts voted for “Right to Repair” but NHTSA says no, Mercedes gets approval for level 3 driving and every Tesla Semi is recalled. Related Links https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/06/feds-tell-automakers-not-to-comply-with-mass-right-to-repair-law/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/subaru-buyers-take-a-hit-in-mass-right-to-repair-fight/ar-AA1cC1od https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/nhtsa_testimony_in_response_to_ma_committee_letter_july_20_2020.pdf https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/california-mercedes-benz-self-driving-car-autonomous-vehicles https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2023/06/19/is-the-personal-self-driving-car-for-city-streets-a-false-early-dream https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2023/INOA-PE23011-2700.PDF https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V420000 https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V421-6363.PDF https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/tesla-has-more-awful-news-about-its-semi-trucks/ar-AA1cKDqo
Total Bullshift or Anti-Geek-ite
Hey Listeners,Thank you for listening. Without you we’d be talking to ourselves. This week we touch on the I-95 fire, Toyota wasting engineering time on stalling EV’s, GM Cruise still blocking emergency responders, the dumbness of the Telsa Cybertruck, the NHTSA OIG report, Fred discusses congestion pricing and Recall Roundup. Related Links https://www.eenews.net/articles/needed-car-experts-to-fend-off-grid-disaster/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/toyota-ev-mimics-manual-transmission-with-faux-gear-shifts-and-roaring-engine-3afc760f?st=sbphonxwm0f6cs8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/12/san-francisco-robotaxi-hinder-emergency-crews-shooting…
Automatic Emergency Braking and Mr. Bean
For our 50th episode we take a deep dive into Automatic Emergency Braking and NHTSA’s proposed rule to make it required for all cars. We like that idea. Can they propose a rule for no angry drivers? Plus, Fred channels Mr. Bean and discusses more about the environmental details of electric cars and how we…
The Large Foot Persuasion
Is height-ism a thing? Fred thinks it. Tesla opens their superchargers to Ford, NHTSA tells them to stop with the videogames, a whistleblower explains the lies around Tesla Full Self Driving (still not a thing), Fred explains synthetic oil, quizzes the non-scientists and shares his Woodstock 1969 experience. Put on your seatbelts cause this is…
NCAP update, GM goes big, AM radio frightens Fred and Operation Cave Bear
NHTSA updates their new car assessment program to take pedestrians into account. Fred explains why simulations are not enough to make Autonomous Vehicles road worthy. Nearly half of all vehicle passengers killed on U.S. roads in 2021 were not wearing a seat belt. An update on the Hyundai/Kia/TikTok car theft problem. GM thinks a massive…
The recall of 67 million airbag inflators
This week we try out some new transcription software. Part of what it does is summarize an episode. How’s this take away: Donate to help patent Fred’s therapy for his traumatic brain injury caused by a bumper car. If this is the future, we’ve got nothing to worry about. But you should still donate: https://www.autosafety.org/support-us/…