Surprisingly Unsafe: Early-1980s and Older Mazdas
The safety of Mazda's recent vehicles has been impressive. IIHS beefed up its side impact test in 2021, putting 20...
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Take Tesla safety claims with about a pound of salt
This morning when giving a talk to a group of automotive safety engineers I was once again asked what I...
Blaming the autonomous vehicle computer as a regulatory strategy
A technique being used by the AV industry in pursuing state regulation is attempting to blame the computer for any...
The UL 4600 Guidebook
The UL 4600 Guidebook:What to Include in an Autonomous Vehicle Safety CaseANSI/UL 4600 is the most comprehensive standard for highly...
Who Got Airbags to the Masses?
In 1990, Oldsmobile put out a commercial stating that 17 years earlier, in 1973 (for the 1974 model year), they...
The effect of AV company business models on safety
The business model and exit plan for an AV company can powerfully incentivize behavior that is at odds with public...
Shiny vs. Critical Software
Coverage of Lucid software problems (cars bricked; wrong direction of travel) might be written off to growing pains for a...
The AV Blame Game
Assigning blame does not make roads safer. Rather, blaming is most commonly used to evade responsibility for mitigating a safety...
Why Car-to-Bike Safety Communications Won’t Solve Safety
This nicely thought out article by David Zipper breaks down the problems with C-V2X: in this case using direct wireless...
Update on 2022 PA AV bill
PA AV legislation update: The PA Senate Transportation Committee passed the PA House bill on AVs to the PA Senate...
