Trust, but regulate

The autonomous vehicle industry has their own PR team that is trying to compete with our Consumer Autonomous Vehicle Bill of Rights. It's a bunch of hogwash that they regurgitate every few years. A few Senators that can see through this have written a nice letter to NHTSA telling them to regulate AV's, British Columbia bans AV's and another Tesla driver makes the fatal mistake that his car is an AV and not lipstick on a pig. Fred gets into the dangers of AI through the story of mushrooms. Plus recall roundup that starts with a... Tesla.

This weeks links:

• https://www.autosafety.org/support-us/
• https://theavindustry.org/trust-principles
• https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-markey-blumenthal-lead-call-for-stronger-action-from-federal-regulator-on-autonomous-vehicle-safety-after-high-profile-crashes
• https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24133448/autonomous-vehicles-adas-blumenthal-markey-nhtsa
• https://jalopnik.com/tesla-driver-who-trusted-autopilot-charged-with-killing-1851428652
• https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybertruck-no-match-for-car-wash-1851417011
• https://www.thedrive.com/news/self-driving-cars-banned-in-british-columbia
• https://www.extremetech.com/cars/mercedes-becomes-first-automaker-to-sell-level-3-self-driving-direct-to
• https://www.citizen.org/article/mushroom-risk-ai-app-misinformation/
• https://www.ibm.com/topics/artificial-intelligence
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V276-7026.PDF
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V274-3413.PDF
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V275-7192.PDF
• https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/04/22/five-car-culture-euphemisms-we-need-to-stop-using