NHTSA, Manufacturer Playbooks, and Blame

Phil Koopman joins us to win the Lifetime Achievement Award for Gaslight Nominee with Sudden Unintended Acceleration. From the Audi 5000 to Tesla, Phil walks us through the nonsense that it's always the humans fault and instead explains how bad hardware and software engineering has led to many of these dangerous situations.

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• https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman18_safecomp.pdf
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKHa7rxkvK8
• https://www.safetyresearch.net/how-ford-concealed-evidence-of-electronically-caused-ua-and-what-it-means-today/
• https://www.autoevolution.com/news/nhtsa-has-yet-to-answer-the-petition-about-tesla-s-sua-events-but-where-are-they-251095.html