talking cars

Opinion: Environmental Protection Agency considering backdoor subsidies for ‘talking car’ tech

October 22, 2018 by Sam Francis

By Mark Scribner, transportation policy expert, Competetive Enterprise Institute

During the final days of the Obama administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed its “talking car” mandate.

This would have required new vehicles to come equipped with radios to communicate information to other vehicles in order to convey hazard warnings to drivers.

This was to use a specific communications protocol known as dedicated short-range communications. The proposal was deeply flawed in numerous ways, as CEI pointed out at the time. [Read more…] about Opinion: Environmental Protection Agency considering backdoor subsidies for ‘talking car’ tech

You too can pretend to be David Hasselhoff and talk to your car

September 11, 2018 by Sam Francis

It’s taken more than 30 years, but carmakers are finally giving us all a chance to pretend to be David Hasselhoff in the Knight Rider television show from the 1980s.

Hasselhoff, it could be argued, played supporting actor to star of the show – a car called “Kitt”, short for Knight Industries Two Thousand.

Kitt, which was actually a Trans-Am in real life, could talk and hold conversations with Hasselhoff’s character, as well as drive itself, and thwart a variety of bad guys at the same time every week. [Read more…] about You too can pretend to be David Hasselhoff and talk to your car