This week we debunk Elon Musk’s grandiose claims about Tesla's Robo Taxi, highlighting regulatory and safety hurdles, and the inflated value of Tesla’s stock driven by speculative products. Regulators can't seem to keep up with the new safety needs of autonomous vehicles and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2X) but Gatik AI is making an effort by adopting UL4600. The EU states the obvious - the CyberTruck is for people that don't care about people and recall roundup.

This weeks links:

• https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi-acfc5e3b
• https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi-acfc5e3b
• https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/automakers-quickly-improve-seat-belt-reminders-in-response-to-iihs-ratings
• https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/protecting-connected-self-driving-vehicles-from-hackers
• https://www.ttnews.com/articles/gatik-ai-autonomous-audit
• https://www.wired.com/story/a-rubberized-cybertruck-is-ploughing-through-european-pedestrian-safety-rules/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl8187l920o
• https://www.npr.org/2024/10/09/nx-s1-5147420/honda-recall-steering-problem-civic
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V748-8424.PDF
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V739-1481.PDF