Josh shacter, a famous angel investor to benihum, rents out a race tracka thunder hill northern california. He offers free track time for anyone who wants to come n take a car or an atonymous vehicle out. Ijuse went for the first day, and i saw some of the usual suspects. Andi: The self driving industry is really in where electricity was 19 hundredan elevators were 18 95,. So i'm very optimistic about it.
Tesla's confrontation with US auto safety regulators continues to ratchet up, as the automaker pulled a stealth OTA recall of an Autopilot issue that was under active NHTSA investigation. Meanwhile, the respected and outspoken critic of Autopilot safety (among many other topics) Missy Cummings was announced as special safety advisor to NHTSA, prompting an online harassment campaign by Tesla fans. The gang sorts through these developments, while leaving a little time for Alex to report on the annual Self Racing Cars trackday and for Ed to share an NTSB job listing.