Distracted Driving Month and better safety tech

It's NHTSA's distracted driving month. On the plus side fatalities are down but not by much. Intelligent Speed Assist, driver monitoring and better driving tech can help save lives today but instead billions are spent on robo-taxis.

Tesla dealers are backlogged because people don't want to buy them, Waymo can't navigate a drive-thru, one con man pardons another con man and Ford tops this weeks recalls.

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This weeks links:

• https://www.nhtsa.gov/campaign/distracted-driving
• https://newsroom.aaa.com/2025/04/do-smartphone-apps-hold-the-key-to-safer-drivers/
• https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsbirmingham/major-car-maker-reducing-speed-limit-of-popular-motor-to-68mph/ar-AA1CraSp
• https://www.familiesforsafestreets.org/news/virginia-becomes-first-state-to-adopt-isa-tech-to-stop-super-speeders
• https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/nyregion/nyc-drivers-brooklyn-car-crash.html
• https://thehill.com/business/5221471-who-is-trevor-milton-nikola-pardon/
• https://futurism.com/teslas-kill-motorcyclists-self-driving
• https://www.jalopnik.com/1829010/tesla-unsold-cybertrucks-inventory/
• https://electrek.co/2025/04/08/tesla-already-has-new-model-y-inventory-available-today-in-the-us-demand-is-terrible/
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCLRPT-25V197-2752.PDF
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCLRPT-25V198-1837.PDF
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCLRPT-25V202-6052.PDF