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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.
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/
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