Don't burn your butt and GM Cruise reverts to meat computers

Time to pour some out for the poor folks at GM Cruise as they take time to reflect on how they can better earn the public's trust. We suggest not dragging people under your car and lying about it to regulators. On the plus side lying to NHTSA will hopefully make NHTSA a little more proactive in their investigations into this company. Might make the GM Cruise investors a little more proactive too. Toyota has been slow to move into the EV market and now they are having an, "I told you so" moment as EV's are not selling as well as expected. At the same time Toyota is putting a fake clutch and shifter into their EV because one good idea deserves to be followed up by one dumb idea? We dig into how safety inspections need to be updated for ADAS and self driving vehicles. And how exactly is a self driving car with no pedals or steering wheel going to get itself to an inspection station? Plus recall roundup.

This weeks links:

• https://apnews.com/article/cruise-robotaxi-suspends-operations-gm-73f27ef959afe1e201e61f0fd31802d5
• https://safeautonomy.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-snapshot-of-cruise-crash-reporting.html
• https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/honda-cancels-plan-for-cheap-electric-vehicles-ending-collaboration-with-gm/
• https://www.carscoops.com/2023/10/toyota-chairman-says-people-are-finally-seeing-reality-of-evs/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/auto-executives-coming-clean-evs-arent-working-2023-10
• https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23939076/norway-electric-vehicle-cars-evs-tesla-oslo
• https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-app-storebut-for-carsmay-not-be-far-off-df82503
• https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/toyota-has-built-an-ev-with-a-fake-transmission-and-weve-driven-it/
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V718-8025.PDF
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V719-7656.PDF
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V708-4418.PDF
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V704-6233.PDF