Touch screen or physical buttons that go click? This is the new Pepsi challenge. Where are you? Odds are if you are here than you like the buttons. So do we. This week we start off with a story about how the Europeans are going to ding manufacturers for hiding features behind a touch screen. Telsa decided to go even further and remove turn signal stalks, the Biden administration talks about cyber security for your car, Waymo takes to LA and a thief tries to take a Waymo, it's "recall week" at NHTSA, Fred explains flying cars and we cover some recalls.
This weeks links:
- https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/carmakers-must-bring-back-buttons-to-get-good-safety-scores-in-europe/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevetengler/2024/03/05/a-bug-to-the-light-the-attraction-to-touchscreens-in-cars/
- https://electrek.co/2024/03/04/tesla-controversial-turn-signals-ding-near-perfect-safety-rating/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/waymo-is-cleared-to-launch-robotaxi-service-in-los-angeles-sparking-new-protests/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/ford-54-of-technicians-must-complete-training-by-april-1-or-claims-will-be-rejected/
- https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls
- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/04/flying-car-firm-alef-hits-2850-preorders-worth-over-850-million.html
- https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V155-4707.PDF
- https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V152-2601.PDF
- https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V148-8879.PDF
- https://jalopnik.com/it-s-kinda-getting-communist-some-folks-really-didn-1851257445