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.

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• 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