Driving You Crazy

Has covid killed the road trip or is more alive than ever? David Ramsey, columnist with the Colorado Springs gazette wrote an article recently titled COVID-19.. a roadblock to the Great American Road Trip. We will get his take on the road trip and why he thinks it is dead. How much money does the TSA keep from passengers who leave their money behind? Enough to make you rich. And why did the chicke...

According to AAA, some sort of technology in your car fails every 8 miles. So I invited Skyler McKinley from AAA Colorado to talk about that as well as gas prices and lots of other car stuff. Traffic is coming back as we see more cars on the roads. By the way, Four Loko and tree branches don’t mix. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.    Contact: 303-832-0217 or DrivingYouCrazyPodca...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live, eat and breathe hotdogs for a full year? How about what it would be like to drive and tour with the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile? I invited Katie Ferguson, also known as Ketchup Katie and Rachel Aul, aka Relish Rachel, two of the Oscar Mayer Hotdoggers who drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile across America. Airlines are dropping routes in anticipati...

How long will it take to see an autonomous car on the road? My guest says 100 years. Richard Truet is the Engineering & Technology reporter at Automotive News and also reports on Jaguar’s and Land Rover’s. Richard wrote an article in Automotive News called, Breaking up is hard: GM's missed chance to retain Volt drivers. I talk to him about the end of one of my favorite cars and autonomous cars. I...

How important are our cars during this pandemic? According to Tim Jackson, president and CEO of the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association Our cars are literally getting us through COVID. Tim wrote an opinion piece in Colorado Politics saying that our cars are more important now than ever. You can now drive your flying car in New Hampshire. Delta is serious about wearing a mask. Cruising failed t...

What is the state of our infrastructure across the nation? Not good, according to TRIP’s Rocky Moretti. Rocky is the director of policy and research for TRIP and he joins me to talk about how bad our roads and bridges are and what is being done to make it better. Air travel might not come back until 2024. Emirates airlines will pay for your funeral if you catch Covid on one of their planes and die...

What will traffic look like post covid-19? Will it be worse or better than before? How many people will return to transit and how many will stay away? I talk with Will Barbour, research scientist for the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University about his study called, THE REBOUND: HOW COVID-19 COULD LEAD TO WORSE TRAFFIC. (Link to the study is below) Also, BMW is making y...

Does defunding the police mean there will be more people driving badly? That is the focus topic today. Also, the TSA will be changing gloves more often, the rail line between LA and vegas is moving forward, the 437 mph Ford Focus and when one car thief runs into another car thief. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.    Contact: 303-832-0217 or DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayso...

We crack open the mail bag and answer a couple of questions. Did you know that there parts of roadkill that you can keep and parts you can’t. We have the 15 states with the worst drivers. Marijuana users say they can good at driving high while states disagree. Some states are targeting cars with out of state plates just to look for drugs that might or might not be there. All that and more on the D...

Look who is back on the show… Joseph. How vulnerable is your car to be hacked? I talk with Rob Davis, CEO and Founder of the cyber security company called Critical Start about that possibility. Are recap tires safe? There is only one way you can go for a ride if you keep calling 911. When you want to go to the beach and you only have a scooter, traffic be damned! All that and more on the Driving Y...

Nicole is back as we talk about people getting kicked off planes for not wearing a mask. This could be the summer of the road trip as people want to get away just not on a plane. What does a stop sign and a Burger King sign have in common? Another record in the cannonball run? What business in Colorado sponsors more highway cleanup areas than any other. One guess. All that and more on the Driving...

What is it like to travel across the country during this time of covid-19? Jayson has all the juicy details of his recent trip to Florida. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.    Contact: 303-832-0217 or DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayson: twitter.com/Denver7Traffic or www.facebook.com/JaysonLuberTrafficGuy     Production Notes: Open music: jazzyfrenchy by Bensound Close music:...

There is more to concrete than just something you drive on. I speak with Wil Srubar, assistant professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder about a new way to create concrete that makes it resist the freeze/thaw cycle and makes it last much longer. Also, the most unlucky DUI driver in the country and the shortest flight in the country. Al...

Have you noticed traffic volume is picking up? I talked with Gil Edwards, Traffic Cast’s head of product strategy and engagement to talk more about traffic before, during and after the covid crisis. People remain quite apprehensive about riding public transit. What is it like out there right now from Nicole’s perspective? And according to one viewer, it is time for me to come back to work. All tha...

We are back from the depths of quarantine. Nicole Brady and Jayson talk about what has been going on with the show the past two months as well as predictions from then and for the future. They also talk about a Harvard professor's assertion that you aren’t more likely to catch the virus in an airplane than anywhere else. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.    Contact: 303-832-0217...

The Coronavirus is affecting so many businesses and industries right now including a major one many people have forgotten about. The motorcoach industry. I speak with Peter Pantuso, the President and CEO of the American Bus Association about how badly the bus industry is being affected by the travel and life shutdown. Also, I discuss other virus related traffic thoughts and issues. All that and mo...

It is a strange time and I have some thoughts about what is going on with the virus and our world. I also revisit a great interview with Dr Lance Eliot who looked at our future with autonomous vehicles? We explore that and so much more with Dr Lance Eliot. Dr Eliot is an AI and AV expert and shared his expertise on all things autonomy. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.    Contact...

It’s time again to talk traffic, this time with Sarah Phinney, Traffic Anchor/Reporter for WFTS-TV ABC Action News in Tampa Bay. The Coronavirus is taking over life as we know it. There are two studies that show people who own and drive expensive cars are jerks and don’t care about pedestrians. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.    Contact: 303-832-0217 or DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@G...

What if there was a product that would automatically stop a driver from texting or surfing social media while driving? There is such a product but it isn’t widely known or used because the wireless carriers are throwing up roadblocks. It is an interesting, and tragic story told by Scott Tibbitts, CEO and Founder of Katasi and creator of the anti-texting product called Groove. We have another disas...

We are again talking traffic, this time with Jon Rudder, traffic anchor and helicopter reporter for WEWS-TV, NewsChannel5 in Cleveland. Jon tells us about what is happening on the roads and in the air above Cleveland. We share a voicemail (303-832-0217) about a suggested safety message that could go on a DOT message board. If you have plans on scamming your way onto the HOV lanes, here is one way...

We all know the time change messes up our sleep. That also increases our risk of being in a crash and even worse, a fatal crash. So says new research from our guest Dr Celine Vetter, the senior author for A Chronobiological Evaluation of the Acute Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31678-1#%20 What if you had your c...

We are talking traffic again today.. This time in southern Arizona with Allen “Big Al” Kath. Big Al has been in radio and TV since the days of Chareton Heston and knows all about what is going on in Tucson and southern Arizona. We open the mail bag. Where are you big truck guy? Texting while driving is dangerous apparently. And if you want to speed, do it in Pennsylvania. All that and more on the...

It is time to again talk traffic, this time with Rebecca Schleicher, traffic anchor and transportation reporter for NewsChannel5 in Nashville, Tennessee. Rebecca tells us about the rapid growth in middle Tennessee, the added congestion, the lack of transit and her feelings about people who don't know how to use traffic circles. This is the beginning of the end to emotional support animals on plane...

It’s time to talk traffic with traffic anchor Anne Marie LaFlamme from our Scripps station WXYZ in Detroit. We get to know Anne Marie and find out what the biggest traffic and transit issues are in the motor city. When trying to scam a ride in the HOV lane, you might want to dress up the skeleton. No sir, you can not put your license plate on upside down because you think it looks cool. Should we...

Hey, what do you know. Joseph is back from his month long hiatus. One drunk driver made it very easy for the cops to find him. Australia authorities have enacted a wildly high fine against drivers who may start a wildfire. Do higher speed limits kill or are people just driving faster no matter what the limit is? Police in one state now are not allowed to ask any questions of you except for what th...