There Auto Be A Law

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 time on this as better crash test dummy technology exists that could make cars safer for everyone.This week Beth Brooke from VERITY Now (https://www.veritynow.org) joins us to explain more about the issue and how NHTSA could solve the problem today.Plus Recall Roundup and Fred discusses the metallurgy for stainless steel in terms of the Cybertruck.Links:https://www.veritynow.orghttps://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicle-choice-crash-differences-help-explain-greater-injury-risks-for-womenhttps://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f8dba2948458c1d7ad08580/t/62db0299834ab3684a015d4e/1658520218097/VERITYNOW_DecipheringTheConversation.pdfhttps://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V553000https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V567000https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V566000

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 still a problem and Hyundai Kia have some issues.This weeks links:https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-most-tech-forward-city-has-doubts-about-self-driving-cars-d6b098e0https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2023/08/02/man-trapped-inside-tesla-manual-door-operation/70512739007/https://electrek.co/2023/08/03/hackers-manage-unlock-tesla-software-locked-features/https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.410887/gov.uscourts.cand.410887.1.0.pdfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOiL4H4JonMhttps://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V534000https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V531000https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V545000https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V523000https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2023/INOA-RQ23003-4425.PDF

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 around your the data your car collects, NHTSA proposed better fuel economy and Fred explains power steering particularly around Tesla's that don't steer. Plus Recall Roundup.https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/waymo-kills-off-autonomous-trucking-program/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/tesla-exaggerated-ev-range-so-much-that-drivers-thought-cars-were-broken/https://jalopnik.com/new-fuel-economy-rules-from-the-feds-are-targeting-gas-1850693364https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/health/ebikes-safety-teens.htmlhttps://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/steering-failures-are-teslas-new-federal-safety-worry/https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2023/INOA-PE23014-4415.PDFhttps://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V516000https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V502000https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V501-4339.PDF

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/

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.https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/opinion/electric-vehicles-toyota-hybrids.htmlhttps://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/news-blog/u-s-regulator-proposes-updated-rules-for-autonomous-vehicles-in-exchange-for-data-44501899https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/cruise-autonomous-vehicles-safety-waymo-self-driving-cars-ad-new-york-times.htmlhttps://www.autosafety.org/av-bill-of-rights/https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RMISC-23V478-0297.pdfhttps://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V480-4609.PDFhttps://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V487000https://energycommerce.house.gov/events/innovation-data-and-commerce-subcommittee-hearing-1

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 Fred delves into cyber security and your car.This weeks links:https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/events-and-meetings/cpuc-voting-meeting-2023-07-13https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/on-the-cusp-of-247-service-robotaxis-face-pleas-and-protest-in-san-francisco/ar-AA1dGvu2https://boingboing.net/2023/07/09/car-free-activists-disabling-self-driving-cars-with-traffic-cones-in-san-francisco.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/04/toyota-claims-battery-breakthrough-electric-carshttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/business/car-repairs-electric-vehicles.htmlhttps://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/collision-involving-fire-engine-blocks-lanes-on-highway-680-in-fremont/https://www.ocregister.com/2023/06/30/driver-of-tesla-on-autopilot-gets-probation-for-crash-that-killed-2-in-gardena/https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/small-pickups-fall-short-when-it-comes-to-rear-seat-safety?mc_cid=acd0edab32&mc_eid=bc4bd393d6https://www.automoblog.net/self-driving-cars-security-risk/https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V458-1736.PDFhttps://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2023/INOA-PE23013-5443.PDF

This episode is all of the AV Bill of Rights edited into one episode. https://www.autosafety.org/av-bill-of-rights/Minimum Requirements for Autonomous Vehicle SafetyThe Autonomous Vehicle Consumer Bill of Rights uniquely provides high level design requirements necessary to assure that the AV design will provide adequate security, privacy, and operational safety consumers deserve and demand.

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-morehttps://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-06-22/san-francisco-robotaxis-interfere-with-firetrucks-los-angeles-is-nexthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/22/tesla-crashes-self-driving-musk/https://www.ahwatukee.com/opinion/article_563f5f4c-10fa-11ee-aa9a-a7e24cde7586.htmlhttps://www.thedrive.com/news/vw-ceo-admits-frustrating-golf-id-4-interiors-did-a-lot-of-damagehttps://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/heavy-vehicles-automatic-emergency-braking-proposed-rulehttps://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V431000https://www.carscoops.com/2023/06/nhtsa-investigating-whether-ford-botched-runaway-explorer-recall/https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2023/INOA-RQ23002-8721.PDFhttps://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22V255-2498.PDFhttps://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V199-9172.PDF

Voters in Massachusetts voted for "Right to Repair" but NHTSA says no, Mercedes gets approval for level 3 driving and every Tesla Semi is recalled.Related Linkshttps://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/06/feds-tell-automakers-not-to-comply-with-mass-right-to-repair-law/https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/subaru-buyers-take-a-hit-in-mass-right-to-repair-fight/ar-AA1cC1odhttps://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/nhtsa_testimony_in_response_to_ma_committee_letter_july_20_2020.pdfhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/california-mercedes-benz-self-driving-car-autonomous-vehicleshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2023/06/19/is-the-personal-self-driving-car-for-city-streets-a-false-early-dreamhttps://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2023/INOA-PE23011-2700.PDFhttps://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=23V420000https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V421-6363.PDFhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/tesla-has-more-awful-news-about-its-semi-trucks/ar-AA1cKDqo

Hey Listeners,Thank you for listening. Without you we'd be talking to ourselves. This week we touch on the I-95 fire, Toyota wasting engineering time on stalling EV's, GM Cruise still blocking emergency responders, the dumbness of the Telsa Cybertruck, the NHTSA OIG report, Fred discusses congestion pricing and Recall Roundup.Related Linkshttps://www.eenews.net/articles/needed-car-experts-to-fend-off-grid-disaster/https://www.wsj.com/articles/toyota-ev-mimics-manual-transmission-with-faux-gear-shifts-and-roaring-engine-3afc760f?st=sbphonxwm0f6cs8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalinkhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/12/san-francisco-robotaxi-hinder-emergency-crews-shootinghttps://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-gm-ford-biden-administration-ev-charging-5914f547https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/06/leaked-tesla-report-shows-cybertruck-had-basic-design-flaws/https://federalnewsnetwork.com/technology-news/2023/06/head-of-office-that-probes-auto-safety-problems-leaves-agency-after-audit-finds-management-problems/https://www.propublica.org/article/underride-crashes-nhtsa-dot-iihs-safety-cars-truckshttps://www.carscoops.com/2023/06/toyota-shows-off-electric-crown-says-solid-state-batteries-will-give-evs-up-to-932-miles-of-range/https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/06/13/how-copenhagen-measures-the-costs-of-driving-and-crafts-policy-to-reduce-ithttps://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V413-6565.PDFhttps://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V405-8182.PDFhttps://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/consumer-alert-important-ford-and-lincoln-fire-risk-recall