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Speaker 1: The US government's Highway Safety Agency has approved the company's

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Speaker 1: Nian the Car Doctor, since this is where car owners

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Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: At eight five and now he's running. I'm thinking we

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Speaker 1: I think that would be a great thing. If everybody

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Speaker 1: and me and legislated into existence along. Welcome ron in

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Speaker 1: any of the car. Doctor. Glad to have you with

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Speaker 1: and talk about automobiles and uh, you know what's going

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Speaker 1: or as we like to say, keep things short, happy

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Speaker 1: Reports is stating over forty four thousand cars in issue

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Speaker 1: Because people are expecting to be let around like sheep anyway,

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Speaker 1: So there's two hundred and fifty bad ones that you

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Speaker 1: All right, sir, all right, thank you, You're very welcome, Trevor.

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Speaker 1: sir house things today down there, Thank you, Ryan. I

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Speaker 1: It was a Yeah, it was probably a beatle beat

425
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 1: of Regetta whatever or a Gulf whatever, it doesn't matter.

426
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:46,439
Speaker 1: And you know, some four cylinders sideways mounted something, and

427
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,159
Speaker 1: I need a bunch of cooling system hoses in the

428
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,160
Speaker 1: water neck and the hoses around it. Yeah, well, I'll

429
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:51,920
Speaker 1: send you a picture. And I sent him, Oh yeah,

430
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,720
Speaker 1: I need this one, this one, and this one. Okay,

431
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send you all the hoses. Send me back

432
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 1: what you know isn't right. Well, I already told you

433
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:01,719
Speaker 1: what I want. I want. I want these three hoses

434
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,399
Speaker 1: in the neck. Yeah, but it's a possibility of and

435
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding, there was a possibility of eleven hoses

436
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,400
Speaker 1: out of the three or four that we needed. That

437
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,119
Speaker 1: it could be. And he said, look, I'm gonna Volkswagen

438
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: parts man for over thirty years, and I'm telling you

439
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 1: right now, there's no way to identify which exact hose

440
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 1: you need. We always order all of them, we send

441
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 1: out all of them, we get back the extra we've got,

442
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 1: like a rotating and how ridiculous of a way is

443
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 1: this to run a car company. You know, it makes

444
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,439
Speaker 1: my job harder, it makes the parts guys harder, job harder,

445
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,920
Speaker 1: But you know, Volkswagen just keeps pumping them out because

446
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 1: you know, it's just a wonderful car. A Volkswagen is

447
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,479
Speaker 1: a great car until it breaks. And then when it breaks,

448
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 1: trying to get replacement parts is a headache. It's not

449
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 1: the easiest thing in the world. It's not the easiest

450
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,679
Speaker 1: thing in the world from the manufacturer, and it it

451
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 1: can be real, you know what, in the aftermarket world.

452
00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 1: It's just difficult to deal with. So can I fix it?

453
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 1: Sure can, Absolutely, I can fix anything you roll in

454
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,160
Speaker 1: the door with. It's just a matter of how quick

455
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 1: and how economical and what's what's cost effective about it.

456
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,880
Speaker 1: So that's part of my pet peeve with Volkswagen. UM.

457
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,640
Speaker 1: The rest of it's just the rest of it's kind

458
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: of personal, all right. It's I still think v W

459
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 1: stands were virtually worthless. You're never gonna get me to

460
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: change my mind about that. UM So if you drive one,

461
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you have my sympathy. Another thing I want

462
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 1: to bring up is it's cold, right, It's been cold

463
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:28,160
Speaker 1: in the Northeast. We haven't seen a lot of snow

464
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 1: this winter. I haven't seen a lot of snow reports

465
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: anywhere in the country. It's like snowfall seemed to be down.

466
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about this the other day. We

467
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,959
Speaker 1: had a couple of cars this week that came in

468
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,400
Speaker 1: with belt issues. You know, they needed belt The belts

469
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 1: were noisy, and people are driving them and during for

470
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,119
Speaker 1: royal changes, Hey, you know, gee, what's that noise we

471
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 1: heard when you you know, you left the car the

472
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: night before and when you start, oh yeah, it's been

473
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 1: making that for a while now, you know, you know,

474
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 1: take a look. Maybe there's something going on. One car

475
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: actually was in danger of losing the belt. The belt

476
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: was that shredded. And I think, you know, even though

477
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 1: it's no snow, oh, there's still a lot of cold

478
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,679
Speaker 1: out there, and the cold does beat up on the rubber.

479
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 1: The cold does beat up on the belts. And it's

480
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: also a matter of you know, the belts are critical.

481
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: You know, here's that argument again. Warm up the car

482
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: in the driveway or just drive it down the road

483
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 1: and you get you get you know, seven, eight, ten

484
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 1: minutes from the house, and that's when the belt breaks,

485
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 1: and then you get to walk back in the cold.

486
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:20,880
Speaker 1: Where do you want to warm up with the car?

487
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: That's I can't talk about that. They're gonna shut this

488
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: radio show down. So um from the Car Care Council

489
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 1: carcre dot org. You may not see them or no

490
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:30,959
Speaker 1: much about them, and this seems to be a very

491
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: timely topic. I thought I'd bring it up. A engine

492
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: belts are always working to keep your vehicle moving. Losing

493
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: a belt can meet immediate trouble for the engine and

494
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: a breakdown to you. For you to avoid being stranded,

495
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 1: the Car Here Council recommends that motorist review the owners manual.

496
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: And they're the nonprofit Car Here Council, I should point

497
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 1: out these guys are just out there there there sold.

498
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: Existence is to make sure you have a good motoring

499
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: experience in your automobile. You want to check the owner's

500
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,199
Speaker 1: manual to ensure the belts are inspected and replaced at

501
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: the proper intervals. And that's the truth. That's really just

502
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: you know, we we all think of cars as they

503
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: run forever. They're perfect, they never need anything. Yeah, if

504
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: they didn't need anything, they wouldn't be repair shops and

505
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: parts houses. So a vehicle's belts are essential to cooling,

506
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 1: air conditioning, and charging systems of the engine. SERPENTEINAE belts

507
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 1: are used to turn the water pump alternator power steering

508
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: an air conditioning compressor. I gotta tell you a story

509
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: about Danny, my mechanic so and I love Danny to death.

510
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 1: He's he's been with me ten going on eleven years,

511
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: and he's doing a heck of a job. He's really

512
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 1: he's like a sponge. He absorbs everything I throw at him. Right,

513
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: Danny bought a seventy eight Camaro. He found that, he

514
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 1: found the car of his dreams, this yellow zy eight,

515
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: and he's putting it together at the shop, and you know,

516
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,199
Speaker 1: the old man stands over him and I kind of

517
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:37,639
Speaker 1: watch him, and you know it kind of give him

518
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: a nudge, and you know, it's sort of fun for

519
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: me too. I I kind of remember where the old

520
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: tools are in the shop. Oh yeah, I think I

521
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: got the right little clip remover for that and disconnector

522
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: for that. And so he had to put a set

523
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 1: of belts on it. Now, Danny was born in nineteen

524
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: ninety nine, ninety one, I think it was, so he's

525
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: never seen anything with V belts, you know, multiple belts.

526
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 1: Everything has been a serrup belt to him. So the

527
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: Camaro's got three belts on it, a C alternator in

528
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 1: power steering. It took him ten minutes and he found it,

529
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: but it took him ten minutes to find the bolts

530
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 1: for the power steering pump. I never saw anybody so

531
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: frustrated in my whole life. It was the funniest thing

532
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 1: to watch. And I finally said, listen, it's down here

533
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 1: in the back. How did you know that, I said,

534
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 1: because I got as aggravated as you the first time

535
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: I had to do one, and I never forgot it.

536
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 1: And that's how you learned. Right. Um, we're back to

537
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 1: that learning thing, okay. Like I was talking about Sacramento

538
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 1: County in a previous show banning auto repair. You know

539
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: it's um, you know what auto repair is good for you.

540
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 1: It's good for the soul. It teaches you and it

541
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: trains you to survive. But it's also good it gives

542
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: you a muscle memory, if you will, and where things are.

543
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: There are some things I'll never forget where they are

544
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: in automobiles, and belts was one of them. So, um,

545
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: just to just be aware of that. And this article

546
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: is out there at cark here dot org, by the way,

547
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: about belts, and you know, and they point out, I

548
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: just want to finish up. Typical serrup belt replacement is

549
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 1: exceeded nine miles. That is true, at a hundred thousand miles.

550
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: They're calling for belt replacement on the average car, and

551
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: typical V belt replacements forty to fifty miles, and I

552
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 1: think they're being generous there. We typically used to do

553
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 1: V belts in the thirty to forty thousand mile range

554
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 1: because the problem with V belts was there was no

555
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: automatic tension er. They had to be tensioned. And I

556
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: think we've all forgotten that too. That's another thing we

557
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: don't do anymore. Uh, you know we used to do

558
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: on a regular basis. So, and obviously timing belts you

559
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: want to replace that as specified in the owner's manual. UM. So,

560
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:31,959
Speaker 1: A good job, Rich White and the folks out there

561
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: at car here dot org eight zero nine zero. I'll

562
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 1: run on any in the car doctor. I'll be back

563
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: right after this. Want the car doctor. We're back at

564
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: zero nine zero zero. Have you heard about V two

565
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: V V TWOV commune occasions? This is something well it's

566
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: it's been talked about for a long time, but they're

567
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: considering it. You know, they say the car radio of

568
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 1: the future, and it's it's here now. Um the article

569
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 1: that it's last month. Um, it's not a m it's

570
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: not FM. It's not serious, it's not high def or

571
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: a combination of it's not a GPS radio or a

572
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: CB radio. It's something like to be called c V

573
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: two X, essentially shorthand for CELLU vehicle to everything. The

574
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 1: new radio will provide two A communications with other vehicles

575
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: as well as the cellular network. You won't personally be

576
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 1: doing the communicating, but your vehicle radio will. Well, you

577
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: know what they're trying to do, all right, and understand

578
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: why do we want to go to self driving cars?

579
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: What's that all about? We want to go to self

580
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: driving cars because we're trying to eliminate accidents. We're trying

581
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: to eliminate people that drive like jackasses, and they're out

582
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: there right this morning, I pulled out. It was a

583
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: forty mile zone. I pulled out. I had eight car lanes,

584
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: ten car lanes. Learance, I mean he was. He was

585
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: two and a half blocks away and I pulled out.

586
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: I'm cruising down Crescent AV and I'm doing forty. He

587
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: got right on my tail, past me on a double

588
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: yellow line, gave me the New Jersey salute. I went, okay, brother,

589
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: it's up to you. It's you're the one doing all

590
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: the crazy stuff, and um off. He went there. Trying

591
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: to eliminate that kind of driving. That's just what they're

592
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: looking to do. The whole idea is part of the

593
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's goal to improve vehicle safety

594
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: by having cars and trucks in close proximity communicating with

595
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: one another. Do you know that they're talking about with

596
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: self driving cars. And I'm not saying I'm a proponent

597
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: of this. I'm just here to report the news, all right.

598
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: But the idea is that self driving cars will eliminate

599
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: traffic lights. You don't need traffic lights anymore. As cars

600
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: get up to an intersection, they'll know, you know, this

601
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,959
Speaker 1: one's here, that one's there, and zip, it'll just be

602
00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: you know, high speed commuting. You'll eliminate traffic jams there.

603
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: There won't be any rubbernecking anymore with vehicle to vehicle

604
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: communication and self driving cars, because there'll be nothing to

605
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: look at. You will be able to slow the car down.

606
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: You'll just the car will just progress along. There'll be

607
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: no traffic jams, will be no there'll be no traffic.

608
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: Traffic will become a thing of the past. Those are

609
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: the claims, that's what they're going for. There was actually

610
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: a study done last year and I'm off the article

611
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: a little bit. But there was actually a study done

612
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: last year that there's conversation in the body business and

613
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: the collision repair industry that if self driving cars ever

614
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: take hold to the level that the government is trying

615
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: to get them too, you'll see no more collision repair industry,

616
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: or would be difficult, there'll be less body shops there

617
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: there there won't be you know, it'll of course, then

618
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: they'll have to come up with another reason why our

619
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: car insurance is so high in New Jersey, because you know,

620
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: there'll be no it will be based on claims and

621
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: premiums or claims and you know, adjustments. So but um,

622
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: you know. V TWOV radios are transponders. Vehicles exchange information

623
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: automatically about their location, action, speed, direction, and other data

624
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: with vehicles within range, typically up the three. By exchanging data,

625
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: the vehicles can analyze determined potential threats that guy's coming

626
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: too close, and provide early warnings to the driver. Hey,

627
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: here's the New Jersey salute pull over. Future tients the

628
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: current advanced driver assist systems and self driving vehicles are possible.

629
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: While the main feature of the plan is V two V,

630
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: these new radios can also communicate with outside entities such

631
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: as Traffic Information Infrastructure V two I that provides updates

632
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: for traffic instruction notices, whether warnings, and another relevant trip data.

633
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: Other links are possible, opening the opportunity for vehicles to

634
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: communicate with almost anything that will be called V two X.

635
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: The government and industry have been working on the system

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Speaker 1: for decades. Yeah. I kind of remember seeing this at

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Speaker 1: the World's Fair in nineteen sixty four. I'm dating myself.

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Speaker 1: It developed a radio technology called dedicated short range communications

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Speaker 1: years ago. The wireless technology is designated as eight to

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Speaker 1: two eleven P and operates in the five point nine

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Speaker 1: giga hurt spectrum in the Federal Communications the f c C.

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Speaker 1: Tom tom Rady likes the fc saying, dedicated me hurts

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Speaker 1: block of spectrum to Uh. The d s r C

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Speaker 1: radios were designed, built and tested, but nothing else happened. Um, Tom,

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Speaker 1: can you come to the microphone real quick? If you

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Speaker 1: heard of this? Is this you know you're the radio

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Speaker 1: frequency guy? Is this true to? I was reading something

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Speaker 1: about that the other day. UM, I don't necessarily know

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Speaker 1: if I want my car talking to everybody else around me,

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Speaker 1: and you know, as far as traffic data, my garment. Uh,

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Speaker 1: GPS does that already. It pulls it off of HD

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Speaker 1: radio data on FM radio stations and what's called r

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Speaker 1: d S data on radio FM radio stations. The thing

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Speaker 1: I want to know is, you know, if you've got

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Speaker 1: everybody dependent on one system and that one system goes down?

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Speaker 1: Oh good lord? Now what now? What? All right? You know?

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Speaker 1: I still can't get the thought out of my head.

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Speaker 1: And this was a couple of years ago. We were

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Speaker 1: talking about self driving cars and they're guided by satellites

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Speaker 1: and GPS control. And remember the tidal wave in Japan.

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Speaker 1: It said it shifted the Earth on its axis by

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Speaker 1: one degree, which affected how the satellites related information. What

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Speaker 1: about recently with they were doing military maneuvers down around Florida,

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Speaker 1: I think it was a hundred and fifty mile area.

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Speaker 1: GPS didn't work. Now right now? What now? What do

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Speaker 1: you do? So you know it's gonna have to be

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Speaker 1: well to me, it's no different. Well, yeah, we gotta

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Speaker 1: pull over and take a plause. We'll continue this when

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Speaker 1: we come back. Five five five zero nine zero running end.

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Speaker 1: The car doctor and company will be back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Don't go away. We were talking about Ron and the

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Speaker 1: car Doctor OFLFO. Back we were talking about before the

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Speaker 1: break about vehicle to vehicle communication and self driving cars

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Speaker 1: and the car radio of the future and what it's

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Speaker 1: gonna do and how it's gonna work. And Tom brought

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Speaker 1: up the point about, you know, certain places he goes

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Speaker 1: where there's there's there's no communication and down floor there's

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Speaker 1: there's not enough A Mike and I were just talking,

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Speaker 1: what about hacking it? Well, what about hacking it? What

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Speaker 1: about you know, what about places you go now that

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Speaker 1: your cell phone has no coverage? All right? Here in

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Speaker 1: North Jersey, you go up Seven Lakes, drive through Harriman

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Speaker 1: State Park, there's no coverage. Are we Are we not

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Speaker 1: going to drive through state parks or federally funded lands anymore?

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Speaker 1: And well, since since the cellular companies are working on

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Speaker 1: this five G ever since they started working on it,

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Speaker 1: the New York State Thruway between while up here at

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Speaker 1: the Jersey Line in Albany, the self coverage is sketchy, right,

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Speaker 1: It's like this is the New York State Thruway. It's

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Speaker 1: not like there are no cars that drive on this,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's they've been working on this for decades,

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Speaker 1: all right, And I think they're going to continue to

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Speaker 1: work on it for decades because I don't think the

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Speaker 1: technology is there. I think it's going to have to

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Speaker 1: come from a satellite and outer space, and it's going

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Speaker 1: to have to be because I don't see how you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get coverage, the amount of towers you would have

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Speaker 1: to put up in terms of making this work, or

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Speaker 1: a powerful enough transponder transmitter device that would get the

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Speaker 1: outer space where the satellite might be. H This is

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Speaker 1: stuff of science fiction to a large degree. However, what

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Speaker 1: we can look forward to is the government, it's indefinite wisdom,

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Speaker 1: will continue to try and develop this system and probably

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Speaker 1: try and kill us in the process because it's just

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Speaker 1: not gonna work. Right. So we've got to be ever

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Speaker 1: vigilant and every watchful and just be aware of our surroundings.

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Speaker 1: And uh, real quick thought, I just remember Sacramento County

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Speaker 1: Order Repair Law. Go google it, read up on it,

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Speaker 1: and be aware of it. I'm not an any in

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Speaker 1: the car doctor until the next time, reminding each and

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Speaker 1: every one of you good mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless.

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Speaker 1: See you