{"podcast":{"title":"There Auto Be A Law","slug":"there-auto-be-a-law-5505020","podcast_index_feed_id":5505020,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/autosafety/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.autosafety.org/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/autosafety/20220622_020615_d745b9749bfdccc6ee6839a2c96bc342.jpg","author":"Center for Auto Safety","episode_count":210,"summary":"A discussion on auto safety issues and technological developments, in hopes of providing consumers and enthusiasts with a better understanding of modern vehicles, safety systems, and current issues in the auto industry.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T16:17:56.993678+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/there-auto-be-a-law-5505020"},"episode":{"title":"Auto Safety Isn't the Expensive Part","slug":"auto-safety-isn-t-the-expensive-part","published_at":"2026-01-22T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/there-auto-be-a-law-5505020/auto-safety-isn-t-the-expensive-part","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/there-auto-be-a-law-5505020","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/autosafety/2475533","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/135978/2475533/autosafety/2026_01_21_18_13_59_fa464c01-c945-42bf-b581-f604090104c0.mp3","summary":"Safety is not why new cars are expensive but higher prices make consumers hold onto older, less safe cars. Waymo continues the usual nonsense from them and their PR, paid and unpaid, shills. NHTSA gives Tesla more time to explain why FSD fails. More news on Chinese counterfeit airbags and Ford gives us some recalls. Support the show! Donate. https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/sacrificing-safety-is-not-the-way-to-make-cars-affordable https://philkoopman.substack.com/p/the-waymo-school-bus-problem https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01/feds-give-tesla-another-five-weeks-to-respond-to-fsd-probe/ https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/urgent-warning-two-more-deaths-substandard-dangerous-chinese-air-bag-inflators https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2026/01/13/states-earbuds-headphones-legal-while-driving/88147204007/ https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2026/RCLRPT-26V009-9507.pdf https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2026/RCLRPT-26V012-0477.pdf https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2026/RCLRPT-26V011-0611.pdf","meta_description":"Safety is not why new cars are expensive but higher prices make consumers hold onto older, less safe cars. Waymo continues the usual nonsense from them an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3792,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/there-auto-be-a-law-5505020/episodes/auto-safety-isn-t-the-expensive-part/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/there-auto-be-a-law-5505020/auto-safety-isn-t-the-expensive-part.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}