Will GM Decide When You Stop Driving?

RV Podcast - Stories From The Road

Mike Wendland

Leisure, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Automotive, Places & Travel

4.5 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week on the RV Podcast: General Motors has developed a system that monitors your driving abilities and reaction times, opening the door to when you stop driving because you may be too old. If you are camping in bear country this time of year, our conversation of the week is with an expert who reveals just what you should do when you encounter a bear. This is super important info you need to know. Thinking about a washer and dryer for your RV? We’ll tell you what to look for and what to watch out for. All this plus the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in Episode 564 of the RV Podcast.

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0:00.0	This week on the RV podcast, General Motors wants to monitor your driving abilities and your reaction times and then report when you are too old to drive.
0:13.0	If you are camping in bear country this time of year, our conversation of the week is with an expert who reveals just what you should do when
0:21.8	you encounter a bear.
0:23.3	This is super important information you need to know.
0:26.6	You're thinking about a washer and dryer for your RV?
0:30.2	We'll tell you what to look for and what to watch out for.
0:33.9	All this plus the RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in episode 564 of the RV
0:40.4	podcast hello everybody i'm mike wenlin and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride
0:47.0	Jennifer hello mr mike we have had an awesome week haven't we we really have had a great week
0:54.1	yeah this has been crazy and we bring you greetings from the great We have had an awesome week, haven't we? We really have had a great week.
0:55.9	Yeah, this has been crazy.
1:00.3	We bring you greetings from the Great River Road.
1:05.1	We're on the second week of a five-week fantasy RV tour of the Mississippi River.
1:12.5	We started way up in northern Minnesota, where we could literally walk across the river at its source and we've now on our way down to the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, whatever you like,
1:19.5	just south in New Orleans where it empties into the Gulf.
1:22.9	We come to you in this episode from the Quad City area, where Illinois and Iowa meet with the river.
1:30.3	Now almost half a mile wide divides the states. We've driven about 800 miles so far and have seen and experienced so much from riverboat cruises to a bald eagle sanctuary.
1:41.3	We've been doing almost daily reports on RV community.com.
1:46.0	That's our private ad-free online community and we've also been doing weekly videos on our RV lifestyle YouTube channel.
1:54.0	But while we're talking about it, and before we get into the RV News of the week, we want to share why we think you need to be a part of the RV community.
2:03.6	You know, life after 50 should be an adventure.
2:07.6	I mean, after all, you're not slowing down. Think of yourself as just getting started.
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