Reference articles SF Transit Bosses Slam Cruise Self-Driving Cars For Blocking Streets. Cruise Wants To Deploy More https://sfstandard.com/transportation/sf-transit-bosses-slam-cruise-self-driving-cars-for-blocking-streets-cruise-wants-to-deploy-more/ NACTO Pushes Back as Big Auto Seeks Safety Exemption for Driverless Cars https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/09/23/nacto-pushes-back-as-big-auto-seeks-safety-exemption-for-driverless-cars/

Waymo statement — https://blog.waymo.com/2022/09/benchmarking-av-safety.html Reference article — Waymo Claims Its Driver AI Is Safer Than a Human and Backs It Up with Test Results https://jalopnik.com/waymo-claims-its-driver-ai-is-safer-than-a-human-and-ba-1849598194 While the core apples to apples response time improvement is encouraging, the ability to do something and doing it in enough scenarios, especially crash cases…

Recently, Boeing significantly increased its investment into its joint venture partner Wisk. As well increasing its marketing of the company. This includes tripling down on going autonomous first. I say tripling because Wisk is so invested in this approach, they have no pilot station or controls. This means they cannot…

Recently the FAA changed course and determined VTOL aircraft would be certified under a yet to be written certification process under Part 21.17(b) Airworthiness Standards: Normal Category Rotorcraft for special classes of aircraft rather than under Part 23 for Airworthiness Standards: Normal, Utility, Acrobatic and Commuter Airplanes. …

Reference article — FAA’s Aircraft Certification Chief Says It Must Flexibly Close Regulatory Gaps for New Aircraft https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-09-14/faas-aircraft-certification-chief-says-it-must-flexibly-close-regulatory Unfortunately, the FAA appears to be oblivious, or worse yet ignoring, many key indicators that this industry is on the wrong path. Said more succinctly, they are buying an extreme amount of…

First, I am a whistleblower and have worked in cybersecurity. More on these below. While I am glad Peiter “Mudge” Zatko came forward, I would like to dig a bit deeper into what might have occurred here. My apprehension and questioning of the circumstances focuses on the time Mudge allowed…

References Article — TuSimple truck incident leads to investor lawsuit · https://landline.media/tusimple-truck-incident-leads-to-investor-lawsuit/ Article- Self-Driving Truck Accident Draws Attention to Safety at TuSimple · https://www.wsj.com/articles/self-driving-truck-accident-draws-attention-to-safety-at-tusimple-11659346202 The lawsuit · https://landline.media/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/45850521_complaint.pdf

Reference document from NHTSA https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22E072-8020.PDF Cruise has responded to NHTSA with regard to the crash its system was involved in on June 2, 2022 by taking unprotected lefts out of its testing regimen. Yet, somehow, it does not back away from stating they were “driverless” in the same area. (With…

The state of California is about to pass a measure forcing Tesla to make changes regarding its use of the term “Full Self Driving”. Reference article — CA wants to make it illegal for Tesla to label FSD as FSD https://www.teslarati.com/ca-wants-to-make-it-illegal-for-tesla-to-label-fsd-as-fsd/ First, I am all for dealing with the term…