Plain talk for the road ahead.
Driving You Crazy treats transportation as something people actually live with, from confusing toll transponders to distracted-driving systems. The show mixes Denver road context, car-market interviews, safety reporting, and plainspoken curiosity about why getting around keeps getting complicated.
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Driving You Crazy is a road-and-transportation show with a working-reporter feel. It stays close to the practical business of getting from one place to another. The show covers traffic, cars, toll roads, road safety, auto technology, and the odd little frustrations that build up inside a commute. Its center of gravity is Denver, but its questions are broader than one metro area. Distracted driving becomes a conversation about what cars should detect and when they should intervene. Seatbelt safety becomes a test of whether a familiar message can still be made useful. A toll-road interview turns into a discussion of public-private partnerships, local opposition, and how expensive road projects get financed. Road salt is not just winter maintenance; it becomes runoff, pavement damage, chemical mixtures, and a budget problem for transportation departments. The show is at its best when it takes a familiar driving topic and keeps asking the next plain question. How does a driver-monitoring system decide that someone is too sleepy? What happens if automatic emergency braking gets in the way of off-road driving or track use? Is there a sensible moment to buy a car when prices keep shifting? Are auto-show interviews actually worth doing when the answers get thin? That willingness to show the seams of a conversation gives the show a candid, local-radio texture. It is not slick in the usual automotive-media way. It talks through confusion instead of hiding it. Jason Luber brings a traffic anchor’s habit of turning abstract systems into road-level examples, and the interviews tend to stay accessible even when the subject gets technical. Recent episodes move among General Motors engineers, Kelley Blue Book voices, Cars.com perspective, toll-road operators, and academic research on de-icing chemicals. There is banter, but the show does not lean on performance. There are anecdotes, but they usually point back to safety, cost, regulation, or everyday usability. The overall feel is friendly, workmanlike, and curious. It is a strong fit for listeners who think roads are more than pavement and cars are more than machines.
Made for: For drivers, commuters, car shoppers, road-safety watchers, and transportation-curious listeners who like practical explanations with a local-news rhythm. It especially suits people who notice the rules, design choices, and small confusions behind everyday travel.
What sets it apart: The show connects ordinary driving irritations to the larger systems behind them, using interviews without losing the everyday-driver point of view. Its Denver road perspective makes national transportation issues feel concrete rather than abstract.
Let’s talk transportation, traffic, transit and what’s driving you crazy as you try to get from here to there, no matter how you do it. Longtime Denver traffic expert Jayson Luber looks at the big issues in transportation, traffic, transit and whatever is driving you crazy. Come join us on the road well traveled!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jason Luber makes transportation technology legible by connecting vehicle systems, road infrastructure, and regulation to the choices people face while driving.
Jason Luber treats transportation as a set of systems that drivers encounter in ordinary life. His interviews move from vehicle distraction controls and automatic emergency braking to toll-road financing, road-salt runoff, RV services, and trucking outreach.
Road salt becomes a chemical cocktail, and Jason Luber makes your next traffic rant considerably better informed.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Driver-monitoring tech gets a practical, road-level hearing instead of a shiny product pitch.
Jason Luber uses Distracted Driving Awareness Month to broaden the usual phone-and-texting frame, and the discussion settles on everyday habits that can still create real risk: adjusting the radio, eating, and arguing with a GPS. Dr.
A New York auto-show conversation turns into practical guidance on car costs, speed controls, and safer everyday driving.
Driving You Crazy treats the New York International Auto Show less like a spectacle than a starting point for everyday car questions. Jason Luber, traffic anchor and transportation reporter for Denver 7 News, talks with Sean Tucker, managing editor with Kelly Blue Book, about…
Where car customization meets mandated safety tech.
Driving You Crazy centers on a practical question with a policy edge: how much a driver can still modify a vehicle as safety systems become more regulated.
A road-salt discussion turns into a practical look at runoff, pavement, and more targeted de-icing.
Winter road salt can seem like the clean answer to icy pavement, but Driving You Crazy follows what happens once meltwater carries it beyond the curb. Jason Luber's conversation with Dr.
A tightly focused look at Northwest Parkway that opens into a larger toll-road financing story.
The episode stays centered on Northwest Parkway, the nine-mile tollway on the northwest side of Metro Denver, and uses that narrow lane to open up bigger questions about how roads get built and paid for.
A classroom pen pal program that works because the teacher keeps the guardrails in place.
Jason Luber opens on a tip from Lisa Hidalgo and keeps the focus on Bill McNamee, whose long run as a Trucker Buddy gives the episode a sturdy center.
A practical look at RV Overnight as a subscription option for overnight RV stops.
Jason Luber's episode on RV Overnight frames the service as a subscription that helps people with RVs or travel trailers find a nationwide network of small businesses for overnight parking.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Host Jason Luber interviews Rob Case, co-founder of RV Overnights, a service connecting RV owners with unique overnight stays at small businesses like wineries, farms, and a missile silo.
Host Jayson Luber interviews Bill McNamee, a truck driver with 32 years of experience and a participant in the Trucker Buddy program.
Jason Looper interviews Kevin Sprogue, CEO of Zero-G Space Tourism, about experiencing weightlessness on a modified Boeing 727 without going to space.
Sam Sayed, CEO of Colorado startup EV Charge Me, says homeowners can earn an estimated $200 to $400 a month by renting existing level two chargers through a $199 smart lockbox.
GM child-safety engineer Suzanne Johansson says a puffy coat can keep a car-seat harness from fitting snugly, so caregivers should remove it before buckling.
Google Maps and police scanners give Smilin Mark McKay starting points, but DOT cameras and reporter checks verify blocked lanes and backups.
During April's Distracted Driving Awareness Month, Driving You Crazy E397 pairs Jason Luber with General Motors driver distraction engineer Dr.
Driving You Crazy episode E396 centers on a Broward County red-light camera ruling, Virginia's new speed-limiter law, and a New York International Auto Show interview with Sean Tucker.
Driving You Crazy E395 asks whether car owners can keep modifying vehicles while advanced driver-assistance systems still work.
Jason Luber discusses a LendingTree study ranking BMW, Ram, and Tesla drivers as the worst on the road based on incidents per 1,000 drivers.
Jason Luber interviews Brian Moody from Kelley Blue Book about car buying trends and shares a funny story about his daughter's exercise board.
Denver 7 News traffic anchor Jason Luber interviews Dr.
Denver 7 News traffic anchor Jason Luber interviews Matt Lisbonas, CEO of Northwest Parkway, the nine-mile Colorado tollway that Vinci Highways—a subsidiary of French infrastructure giant Vinci—acquired in 2024 for approximately $1.2 billion after 20 years of near-total silence from the previous Portuguese-led owners.
Jason Luber discusses his hesitation to feature an interview about seatbelt safety with General Motors engineers, explaining the pitch process and his mixed feelings.
Jason Luber interviews Campbell Millam from Hop Skip Drive about how rideshare services can supplement traditional school transportation.
Jason Luber discusses RV Overnights, a service connecting RV owners with small businesses for parking, and compares it to Harvest Hosts.
Host Jason Luber discusses his recent cruise vacation and introduces an interview with KIA America about the future of tariffs, sedans, and electric cars.