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Visit www. Gentex.com to check out the latest in digital vision, Connected Car, and Dimmable Glass Technologies. Hello everybody. Welcome to Shift, podcast about mobility. I is Leslie Allen. Joce Pete Bigelow.

Hi Pete Bigelow.

Hi Pete, hi everybody.

This is Leslie Allen.

Welcome to the show everyone.

Joining us on the podcast today is Robert Malloy.

He's the director of the National Transportation Safety Board's Highway Safety Office.

We'll be talking to him about connected vehicle safety technology and one particular crash that happened recently which which really illustrates the the hopeful use case for what a lot of us call VITAX here in the auto industry.

But first Leslie, a lot of headlines as usual in the mobility realm this week,

perhaps starting with one related to unintended breaking in

certain vehicles what what's the latest there?

What we have Pete is NHTSA opening up an investigation into 1.7 million Honda vehicles for

unintended automatic emergency braking. And right now there are several model years and models are involved such as the 2018 to 19 accord

2017 to 19 CRV and they've gotten about 278 complaints about this inadvertent activation of these

systems which of course are meant to help prevent collisions but if you have a vehicle that's breaking on its own for no good reason

then I would imagine that would be

something that could cause a collision rather than prevent a collision.

Yeah, absolutely. It's kind of the unintended consequences, Leslie. I think we see a lot of

these false positive incidents across automakers at this point. And with the with the 22 mandates for automated

emergency breaking technology, I think that this is probably the tip of the

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