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.
Don’t burn your butt and GM Cruise reverts to meat computers
Time to pour some out for the poor folks at GM Cruise as they take time to reflect on how they can better earn the public’s trust. We suggest not dragging people under your car and lying about it to regulators. On the plus side lying to NHTSA will hopefully make NHTSA a little more…
Self driving car? Humans now required.
To celebrate Fred and Anthony’s birthday the California DMV has banned GM Cruise self driving cars. The moral of the story? Don’t listen to tech bro nonsense AND don’t lie to the DMV. Turns out the GM Cruise that ran over a woman dragged her too but GM Cruise forgot to mention that part. The…
Self driving risk conditions
GM Cruise is the gift that keeps on giving to this podcast. Cruise and their CEO Kyle have repeatedly claimed that their cars are so much safer than humans. How much safer you ask? Well their new software will recognize a firehose. My 3 year old nephew can do the same thing but the DMV…
Playing the odds with ARC airbags
This week we dig deeper into the ARC automotive airbag situation. Fred breaks down the math from the ARC spokesperson, Michael discusses the lack of any safety standards for airbags and Anthony says with a pair of pliers he can disable his airbag. We dig into the history of “right on red”, Connecticut installs drunk…
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…