6-10-26 Hour 3 - Driverless Trucks, Good idea or Worst Idea

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pretending to find it funny. Truly, it's embarrassing what passes his comedy

on late night network television these days.

Welcome to the Chris Blanche. Oh, it's Michael Pelka in for my friend, Chris Blant. Enjoying being here. Chris will return next week from his vacation. We're trying to get to everything, as I said.

But there is just so much going on. Yesterday, sort of a primary day. He had the big primary and main in the Senate race. They got all the attention. But why?

Because it wasn't going to be a close one at all. We all knew Plattener was going to win. And he did.

“So now he's out, whitewashing his reputation, if you will.”

He's making the rounds. He was on MSNBC earlier today. We played one of the clips, but make a Brasinski was trying to make it look like she was grilling. I'm using the air quotes.

The Chris Plant approved air quotes with my fingers. Make it look like she was grilling Plattener. And she did bring up some of the behavior that he engaged in in the early days of his marriage. We'll get to that. So was primary activity in the state of South Carolina where Lindsey Graham won his South

Carolina primary race. He did get the endorsement of President Trump, the full and complete endorsement of President Trump ahead of the election. And it looks like Lindsey Graham appreciated it. He was thankful.

He, well, here's in his own words. So, I want to start with a bunch of thank yous, I want to thank the big guy, God, Trump comes later. I think that's smart, very wise. By the way, no bubble wand on stage for Lindsey Graham, no sign of a bubble wand.

This is President, you're not far behind God, but we're going to start with him.

I want to thank my sister, Gar Lane, for always standing up for her.

All of her brother and all of my family friends and Mark in the campaign team is one of the best-run campaigns in the history of the state of South Carolina.

“All of you should be proud, I certainly am.”

So Lindsey Graham will be reelected, likely, reelected to the Senate State and L.A. of the full endorsement of the President going forward. We'll see what happens, not a surprise. I mentioned earlier, Nancy Mace did not win her primary, she was hoping to win the Republican primary for the governor's race in South Carolina.

Failed badly, fourth place, I think. I haven't looked at the numbers this morning, but as I was watching, the election returns roll-in last night, she was sitting around fourth place. Didn't look like it was going to be, well, unless you're in California and you can count votes for a couple of weeks, it wasn't going to happen for her.

One of the interesting things that was released in the last couple of hours is the Graham Platner campaign has put out its video with Rokana trying to whitewash Platner's history and trying to explain it away. They were walking out on a pier in Maine, I guess, near the oyster farm that Graham Platner allegedly runs.

I see I see him as an oyster hobbyist. I don't see him as an oyster farmer. I feel like this is straight out of central casting. The same way that AOC was cast to be the representative for her district in New York City, they went through 400 some people and tried them all out and they found Sandy and she

was cast for that roll. It feels like they found this guy for Maine and he's got the beard. He's got the grub voice, he's allegedly an oyster farmer, although his parents prop up his business and his life and Rokana's there with them and Bernie Sanders is with them. So you got the endorsement from the senior socialist, you got the endorsement from the California

I don't know why you want to go to the Senate, but I think a lot of people in this country

would like to see more regular people in politics. In most people in this country have gone through some 400 transformations throughout their lives. They've not been living perfect lives. What do you say to someone that says, "I'll row, I agree with Graham's policies, I'm

glad you're going there." But you know, after a stuff coming out, I just might granddaughter, what do you say to someone like that?

“If you believe in transformational politics, you need to believe in the ability for people”

to transform. So transformational, that's what we're going to be into now.

The transformational politics, the other thing you should know about Mr. Platner.

He also performs in community theater, so he has experience acting. The Democrats are very smart in what they're doing. The Democrats are not. Some of their candidates are dummies, but they're not necessarily dummies when it comes to putting together these political campaigns, trust me.

The nomination of Tallarico, Texas, is one you can point to, currently, oddly enough, in the polling data, in that race, Tallarico leads by three points. So the guy who is now transitioning in front of our eyes, as we talk about transformational politics, the guy who went from being the vegan loving, transloving individual is against now.

Suddenly, he's come out against a mutilation of children and he's all in on the barbecue. It's really interesting.

“We'll keep our eyes on all of this as the midterms, I think it's 146 days away to November”

third. We'll see what's going on there. I mentioned briefly, as we wrapped up last hour, about these driverless trucks that are out on the roads today, and that I'm also tying this in with the recall of the Jeep's by Stolantis and the Stolantis connection to China, which I think ties to all these driverless

trucks, and see how we made the circle there. I'm very concerned about safety on our roads, and before we move into some more of the political topics, I wanted to get to Mark from Joplin, Missouri, who's responding to the topic of the driverless trucks, calling us at triple eight, 6309625886309625. Hey, Mark, welcome to the Chris Pancho.

Hey, good morning, Michael. You all right? I have one question, and it's bothered me ever since we've been hearing more and more about these quote-unquote driverless vehicles, and it really, really sets my antennas, you know, tingling.

When we had the cars that were driving around aimlessly in the suburb about their in California. Yeah. Oh, what, about two, three weeks ago? Yeah, those were rainbows that were circling a cul-de-sac, endlessly.

Yeah. Who is responsible for the inevitable accidents and freshes and losses of life and damage that are going to occur? Is it the people who own the vehicle? Is it the AI company?

I don't think that's ever been addressed. Well, this is going to be an entirely new era in terms of law and legal suing the suing of people. The litigation that's going to be coming out of this is going to be all brand new, because we don't have any test cases on this.

So you have the driverless trucks, and when a car is made and it has a problem and accidents are caused, you can maybe sometimes go back to the manufacturers. We have seen some of those cases in the past. We don't know about the driverless accidents yet. There's only been a couple of those.

So will it be the car company? Will it be the insurance company? Will the insurance? Will you be able to ensure a driverless truck? And you brought up a very interesting point, who makes the software will it be the technology

“company versus the car manufacturer or truck manufacturer who is liable?”

Rest assured, there are already developing entire law firms to handle this. Now, I can see the billboards now, where you hit by a driverless car. Call me. You might get an AI lawyer on the phone, too.

So Michael, here's what's going to happen.

There's going to be an 80,000 pound stem I that plows over the top of many bands with a set of parents and four kids under the age of 10 and it kills them all before we even start

Instead of simply going out and being proactive and developing the legal ramifications of what could happen now.

“And then that way, we could make decisions on, hey, am I going to get a driverless vehicle”

or not? Well, here's the, there are a couple of interesting questions here, Mark. And I've kind of had this conversation because I have a brother who owns a car with this technology in it and I enjoy driving. I love driving my car and to turn over the control of that to a computer bothers me.

But he swears that it's good and it's safe and all that stuff.

Maybe the answer is not trying to figure out who's responsible but is the answer to create

lanes on our highways that are only accessed by driverless cars or only accessed by cars with humans driving them because that would separate the two classes. We currently have problems already, Mark, with semi-drivers, commercial driverless licenses for people who can't read English. And I don't know about you, but Missouri, I'm sure, has only English on the street signs

on all the highway signs. So we have people out there with commercial driverless licenses who can't read English and they're driving 80,000 pound vehicles and they have to make a decision while they're translating the sign and traveling at 65 plus miles an hour. So they're all kinds of issues that play here safety is ultimately the goal and not having

driverless cars go crazy and kill families, anybody, hurt anybody. But it's also, we can't even get it right when it comes to the people that can't speak the language in this country.

“The driverless truck thing I think has ultimately a happy ending on it, but I don't want”

to be out there with driverless trucks at this point and I'm, do you, do you think that's okay right now? No, absolutely not and I really don't like the fact that you've got Tesla mode that, you know, people can, are essentially not in control of their vehicle, a three or four thousand pound vehicle traveling down the highway 70 or 75 miles an hour.

Well, like I said, I have a brother who has one of those cars who uses that. He doesn't sit in the back seat or the passenger seat. He sits in the driver seat and you're supposed to be aware that anytime you might have to take over, which where's the comfort there?

That's what I always ask.

It doesn't make any sense to me. The other side of this mark and this is the kind of direct to me into a topic I wanted to

“get to, all of the cars are monitored now.”

All of our traffic is monitored by these flock cameras. Are you familiar with the flock cameras? Yeah. So they probably have them in Joplin, Missouri. They have them in DC.

They have them all over Maryland. They have them in Virginia. They have them in Delaware. Virtually every intersection in every metropolitan area, not major in every metropolitan area, has flock cameras that are tiny cameras with high definition potential that read every

license plate that comes past them. And the instant the license plate is red. It's fed to the giant data center in Georgia. And if that car has a criminal history, it's immediately sent to the law enforcement in the area where it was spotted.

And they are allowed to pursue and maybe stop that car. There is a new story yesterday where a community in this country has just voted to remove the flock cameras. And I for one am happy about this because I'm not against getting criminals off the road. But I am against the violation of our privacy with these flock cameras in there.

And I'm saying it carefully because it's a it's a crazy word to use here on the radio.

The reason why they're being voted out of this one town is amazing.

And it's not the same reason that I would like them remove. I'm going to share it with people just around the corner. Have to take a break, Mark, thank you for your thoughts on the driverless trucks. I'm not a big fan. Don't want to see him in my town.

Let's say you've triplate 630965, the town that's removed the flock cameras and the reason. Next on the Chris Planchio.

And that's easy? Of course. The market is almost automatic.

Finally, I feel like I'm so expand.

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It is the Chris Planchio, Michael Pelka with you. I brought up this topic of the self-driving trucks on the roads and the flock cameras. And while it's not the pure politics based, I wondered if the audience would be interested in it. The flock cameras ignite a fourth amendment question for me and invading our privacy as

well. But many of you have stepped up and said, hold on a second. We need to talk about these driverless cars as well. So I will share with you the flock camera story, but I first want to go to the phones

smiley in Woodburn, Maryland, joining us.

Hey, smiley, welcome to the Chris Planchio. Good afternoon. Good morning. Good morning. Young man.

How you doing, sir? Yeah. I'm not bad for old man. Yeah. I'm not bad for old man.

Yeah. I was just starting a young lady. Two months, I'll be 48 years out here.

“I didn't live in a roll off, dump, tractor, cement, and the computers do not have”

a soul. Now, if it's raining real hard and you're in traffic, that computer is not going to know what to do if you're in a bunch of snow and the tractor starts to, or the trailer starts

to Jack Knight, the computer is not going to notice it right, first of all, and it's not

going to know how to straighten out what's probably hitting anybody. So that's a horrible thing to do for them to do what they're doing. Only I hear making an adult at. You're so right, smiley, and that is one of the issues they have had with the intersections. I mentioned Lauren Fix who's done stories on all this.

The driverless cars are having trouble in heavy rain, sudden downpours, snowstorms, where they cannot read the traffic lights, and then suddenly they either act or shut down creating all kinds of problems. Stay safe, smiley, and thank you for the call, excellent. Well done, sir.

Scott's in Virginia. Hello, Scott. What's your thought on this? Hi, my thanks for taking my call, yeah, so I was watching YouTube the other day, it was a police

“breakdown, and it's a close circuit TV footage of an intersection, I think was in that”

way, and there's all kinds of cop cars and the cops are all, you've got their guns out and they're giving commands to the suspect, and I don't know where this driverless delivery vehicle just rolls right into the crime scene, and you can see kind of everybody froze and didn't really know what to do, and it caused a bit of trouble in there for a minute, because the police had to regroup and move themselves so they could still see the suspect, and it

looked like the suspect was going to take the opportunity to run away, and how this is special. You know, what more chaos are these driverless delivery trucks going to cause? Yeah, it's a concern, I think we watch the same YouTube channel, because I did see that is a problem, I'm going to get to more of this and an important opinion from a retired member

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It is the Chris Blancho, Michael Pelka, my name, and for Chris this week, and we're covered everything. We covered last night's primaries, we could update on the military action the president has taken against a ran after they knocked down one of our Apache helicopters, thank God, the two pilots were saved. It's kind of a harrowing experience, there's another house here and going on regarding the Epstein files, consumer pricing, the inflation was up 4.2% and that's the highest in 3 years, and you know it's tied to the cost of oil, and which is tied to the cost of everything.

We're talking about the price of gas, talking about driving, and I mentioned self-driving cars and man-o, man-o-chevice that the phone lights, phone lights, start blinking like crazy. But I also mentioned the flock cameras that record every single license plate and send it back to a giant database, and then contract and find people that should not be on the roads, there is a town that has voted to remove the license plate reading cameras, but for a different reason than I would like, but just check out this short clip.

Here, a mother, Marcus Simula, is worried could fall into the wrong hands.

The main fear is that the federal government, federal agents, can get to all this data, and that we don't know who's using it, that no one's asking for warrants for this information. The mayor says the unanimous decision to cancel the contract was made during a recent work session. A spokesperson with flocks as their technology has made a measurable public safety impact, assisting in about 20% of self-cases where the tech is deployed, will help locate more than 10,000 air-amada. So 10,000 missing people nationally apparently found because of flock of cameras. I'm not a fan of this. I find it to be an intrusion into our lives, but you know, I don't always have all the answers, but that's my perspective.

“My personal take on it. David is an Indiana listing to the Chris Plant Show. David, you come from law enforcement?”

Yeah, retired a few years ago. And the last few years that I was there, we had license plate readers installed, and it's a great tool.

If you're honest, you got nothing to worry about, you shouldn't care about if they're looking at your license plate, we get stolen vehicles. It just talks about the register owner, somebody else could be driving it, so they may get pulled over if they're not the owner. But if the registered owner has a warrant on them, if their license is suspended, or the car is stolen vehicle, we get alerted, and we pull them over and investigate. It's a great tool.

“I can see that. I see it from that perspective. Number one, thank you for serving your community as a member of law enforcement, gigantic respect for law enforcement.”

The question that this city brought up was the information, in your case, where the license plates readers mounted on the car, or where they coming from flat cameras, and then feeding to the computers on the patrol cars.

It's first they had, there's a few patrol cars they had them, but eventually they're mounted at the major intersections coming into town and leaving the town.

See, this is the question that this town is upset about and they're in Minnesota of all places. They're saying that there's no controls on how the data is used, and the data collected from all these intersections goes to this massive data center in Georgia. It was most people in most municipalities are told it's only to be used locally, but there is a report saying that the Department of Homeland Security might be able to then find out, "Oh, the driver of that car is rumored to be illegal because the cameras now have facial recognition software on them."

“So not only are they reading the plates, they're reading the driver and the passenger, and they can do that.”

That's been upgraded significantly in just the last couple of years. So that's a worry to me is the privacy concern. I understand what you're saying about, "Hey, we can find a stolen car, or we can find a car that may have a person who's been kidnapped in it, etc." There are some privacy questions I have. Very interesting, but you like it, you thought it was a good tool. I don't know about the security. If it is possible to be hacked, but it's a great tool for law enforcement. Thank you, David. Thank you for your opinion. Again, thank you for your service to your community. Appreciate you. Bill is in Gainesville.

Virginia, hey, Bill, thoughts on this? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, my mother, hey, I'm going to the park with your last caller, David said, and thank him for his service. Those plate readers are awesome, brother. I mean, you're going to figure you're running around with your plate. That's not you're running around with your face. That's not a fourth amendment thing, man. I mean, it's, I'm telling you, I've worked on the border of Karen and her colleagues. Those things are awesome. Okay. Tell you that there's an adopted kid. They get a plate and all of a sudden that thing will ping a law enforcement. Absolutely.

Well, I know what you're talking about, go ahead. Go ahead. Continue. You said you're calling about something else. Yeah, well, I was calling about the autonomous cars once again. I've worked on the border and these trucks that's one of Gainesville are down in Stappard. They just happen almost guaranteed that guy doesn't speak English.

And I want to the DMV because they'd lingo have to change over my, all my stuff. I went in. You know, that was like the social security number or my social security card and my federal credentials and the state of New York.

“But no, that doesn't work. And they just got caught that thing in Oklahoma where the guy had a valid CDL at the New York. They said no name you give it.”

And they gave him a license, but I couldn't get a license.

Yeah, it is very frustrating. Yes, the, the states that are giving out the CDLs to people who are here illegally or can't speak the language and won't give a name and won't put a name on it. It makes absolutely zero sense to me. And I, I don't get it at all. And hopefully I thought our transportation secretary was going to be able to squeeze those states and say, we got to cut that out or you're not going to get any federal highway funds. I'm waiting for that to happen. Bill, thank you for your service. And thank you for your thoughts here. Let's go to Michael quickly enrichment. Michael, you're joining us on the self driving car topic as well.

Absolutely. And so I brought my neck in December.

And I'm just going to drive through the newsletter. I have a credible time in some intersections, twisting enough to clear it. And I just thought having gotten delivered yet, but car companies starts with a team kind of make Elon Musk richer anyway.

“That's because I'm going to be much safer on the road having the computer looking at their shoulders, but it's supervised. I have to be aware of weight and watching everything and all you have to do is tap the break in your control.”

Okay. So you're, you're making the case that people that have had injuries or have issues, fiscal issues. This is a great boon to them, but you feel the technology is advanced enough. So you're not worried about it.

Only because it's supervised. I'm not going to go out the Robo taxi or any of them would nobody there. No, I'm not going to be a fan for that.

“But the thing can be an aid to somebody with disability or an injury or something else. I think it's a really good thing. You have to be a way to know where you can't. You just don't go to sleep. You don't pull over to the bleachers and stop.”

Fair point, fair point. The other side of this is a discussion that's coming up. The Congress passed the bill during the Biden administration, which was ironically named, I think it was something to do with stopping inflation. It was the inflation reduction act. That's the name of the legislation. Inside the inflation reduction act is a mandate that's starting in the 2027 automotive manufacturing time, which is now. Car companies are making the 2027 models right now. And in every car made in America, or I believe sold in America, you have to have the technology that includes a kill switch.

So the United States government has mandated that when you buy a car, a new car, that that car can monitor you, monitor your eyes, monitor your driving. And if it thinks that you are impaired, it can shut your car down. The kill switch technology, which was sold to members of Congress as a way to stop drunk driving, as a way to stop people are driving stoned impaired, too tired. It's actually, in my opinion, a horrible idea on several levels. It adds about $3,000 to the cost of every single new car.

That's a lot of money. But it also, well, here's the problem. It's gotten, Michael, it's got a 10% minimum failure. So nine out of 10 estimates that the car has when it's looking at you and thinks you're impaired are fine. But 10% of those that it shuts off the car on you are wrong. You could be just panic because you're taking your injured child to the doctor. What it does, it gives you a warning. It says, hey, we're going to start slowing you down. So if you're on the highway and you're driving 65 miles an hour and you change lanes to avoid a deer and it thinks you're drunk.

But if you're sliding on an icy road or if a deer jumps in front of you, you avoid a kid on a bicycle who's pulling out of a driveway in your neighborhood, it might think you're impaired and shut down the car.

“And there's no appeal that you can make. There's no button you can call to say, hey, I'm not drunk. I'm not tired. I was avoiding something. It's just to shut down.”

And one of that is an encouragement on our rights.

Thank you. And they're watching you. Your car is reading your eyes. It's listening to you. It actually can hear what you're saying. And it's connected again to a giant computer that's making the decision on whether or not you as a citizen are able to do this. Now the kill the kill switch movement was led by people like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Tom Massey, but it's been tabled. And it's one of those things that I wish they would pay attention to. We do need to kill the kill switch. It hasn't happened yet.

Michael, thank you for your thoughts on that. I hope you're healing well. And your neck allows you to get back into action to whatever extent you wish to.

And good luck with yourself, driver. For me, I like to have my hands on the wheel. I have a question. Is Donald Trump a jinx? Is the president of the United States a jinx to sports teams? Remember we had the NBA playoff game on Monday and many people who don't like the president said, "If the nicks lose, it's his fault." And we had Stephen Smith and several other Democrats saying that. Well, the next did lose on Monday. They're playing again tonight.

“And so the question was asked. Does Trump's attendance at a big game spell trouble for the team, the home team or the team he's supporting?”

We'll get into that. I'll share that answer with you. And there's been a response from Stephen A Smith to the president's comments about his intelligence or lack thereup. You want to join us, you can. A trip late 630-9625. It's Michael Pelka in for Chris Plant on the Chris Plant Show. Café in his best form, with the new Cuba One capsule machine from Chibu. In every Cuba capsule, there's a lot of Café from special news. For espresso, coffee creamer or coffee creamer of Knopfdruck. The new Cuba One shows with premium design, compact growth and a small number of prices at 29 euros.

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“It is the Chris Plant Show, Michael Pelka in for Chris this week. Trying to get there.”

You know, we talked about this early this morning and throughout the show, the president ramping it up military action again, against the Iranians after they downed our Apache helicopter with the drone and thank God the pilots both survived with a miraculous rescue with a drone ship. And we have ships that will apparently drones that will ride on the surface of the water as well as a sub drones.

So this was amazing. It also had weapon re-apported, but the pilots were rescued and the president responded.

As he said, proportionate response the last night, but I guess he's done screwing around and wants to bring Iran to its knees and there are more strikes, possibly to power plants and other infrastructure like bridges. Which will make it harder to rebuild when they eventually surrender. So we'll see what happens on that. We'll keep you posted and updated obviously tomorrow. I mentioned the president and his love of the sports world. He was at the next game Monday night. The left hated it. Stop it, please. It's just stupid. He's the next fan. He's been the next fan forever.

They lost it and now I'm going to say easy jinx. He's a jinx. Steven A Smith said he's a jinx. The president called out Steven A Smith for not being smart. Guess what Steven A Smith responded. But because I said what I said about him being the reason that the New York nicks will have lost the game three. He obviously took offense and clapped back. That is his right, ladies and gentlemen. I'm not offended by that whatsoever. I'm not offended by it because it's his default position. I'm not offended by it because he does get attacked every day.

Sometimes unfairly. I'm about that good admissions, Steven A. But the question is, is the president a jinx?

“The associated press wrote a story looking into the president's attendance at games to figure out if in fact he is a jinx.”

And they bring up the next game. And then saying that he went to a national's game during his first term when the home team lost game five in the world series to the Houston Astros.

And it wasn't just a close game. It was seven to one. In November of last year, the president was on hand at the commanders game with the Detroit Lions. And the Lions beat the commanders like a rented mule. He was at the Beth Page Black golf course when the European Rider Cup team beat the American Rider Cup team.

So there are people who would say that perhaps there is a Trump jinx.

“Seriously, one guy in the stands. Really people. Really. And it's very interesting what gets people to attention. I think it's very funny.”

The phone's have been so hot today. I'm sorry. If I've not gotten to everybody, I will try and get more in here. I know I was talking about cars that monitor us. And I was talking about the license plate readers in the flat cameras. I'm very very against the the kill switch in the cars. I'm kind of being turned on the license plate readers, but I don't like the flood cameras. Where are you standing on all this?

“Well, you know, I normally would be against all of this. That's just not, you know, I'm a complete like government out of everything. But I have an experience and I hope you get through without even crying.”

But in January of my daughter was visiting me here in Virginia and she was heading back home to Florida and he always takes along the way.

Where are you? What's happening? You know, that kind of thing. And all of the sudden she kind of dropped off, right? So I kept thinking, well, maybe I don't know, maybe she lost her phone, maybe she ran it over, maybe you know, who knows. So it kept, you know, she kept going to straight the voice now straight. And so my, you know, I started getting, you know, really worried. And so I, you know, thought maybe it was too soon, but I called down to Jacksonville Beach where she was headed to to see, because she's been home by now to see if they could do a safety check. So they did and they were wonderful, by the way, but they didn't.

They said, no, she's not here. She hasn't in there. No one's seen her. And so the officer did this. I didn't even know it was possible at the time, but I have been to have all her information. I had her to have his life since I had her life. We're up against the clock here, Kelly. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry that we ran out of time. So there can be some good from all this monitoring.