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Hi everybody.

Welcome to Shift. Podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter

the Automotive News. Joining us on the podcast today is Camille Terry, CEO of Charger Help, a startup that's helping to improve the reliability of electric vehicle chargers, which don't exactly have a great track record of dependability.

We'll bring you that conversation in just a minute. First, my colleague Molly Boygan joins me for a look at this week's headlines.

Molly, how are you today? I'm doing well, thanks Pete. How are you?

Good. Thanks for joining me here today. You wrote a series of stories this week which examined problems with automated emergency braking which is a fundamental building block for a lot of the autonomous driving technology that we often talk about here.

What prompted you to look into this and what did you learn?

Yes, so it was sort of a bit of a rabbit hole

that I went down, which was one of the great parts of the job.

I got started on the story because the Government Accountability

Office put out a report earlier this year about NHTSA's failure to update its roadmap for providing more information about ADAS features through the NCAP program, the new car assessment program.

And, you know, part of the issue with this is that different systems perform at different levels of efficacy

and consumers didn't have information about that through this

program so that kind of got me started at looking at different levels of

efficacy of these different systems and I stumbled upon this steady sort of drumbeat, honestly, of different NHTSA

investigations and recalls related to false activations of automatic emergency breaking.

There are many automakers who have had issues, you know, documented by the agency

that they've been trying to address. And also on a personal level, I have wondered wondered about this and you hear stories about people being really flipped out by the engagement of their automatic emergency breaking so I wanted to explore the issue and that's kind of how I got started.

So take me from government agencies out on the road.

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