Latest Arizona Headlines
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Self-Driving Waymo Part of 5-Vehicle Crash in Arizona
Jun 19 2018 // Mesa police say a self-driving vehicle was among five cars involved in a collision, but no serious injuries were reported. The driver of the Waymo vehicle told authorities that the car wasn’t in autonomous mode at...
Arizona Launches Driver Safety Campaign for Monsoon Season
Jun 13 2018 // A new safety campaign will remind Arizona drivers stuck in dust storms to pull over, turn off all car lights and wait until visibility is back before hitting the road again. The “pull aside, stay alive”...
Uber Ends Self-Driving Program in Arizona Following Fatality
Jun 4 2018 // Uber has shut down its self-driving car operation in Arizona two months after a fatal crash involving one of its vehicles, the company said last month. Uber Technologies Inc. is not shuttering its entire autonomous vehicle...
RightSure Acquires ETNA Insurance Agency in Arizona
May 29 2018 // RightSure Insurance Group has acquired Tucson, Ariz.-based ETNA Insurance Agency. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The purchase is RightSure’s 11th book of business acquisition. Current ETNA executives and...
Uber Disabled Brake of Self-Driving Car in Arizona Fatal Crash
May 25 2018 // Uber had disabled an emergency braking system in a self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Arizona in March even though the car had identified the need to apply the brakes, the National Transportation Safety...
Uber Ends Self-Driving Program in Arizona Following Fatality
May 24 2018 // Uber has shut down its self-driving car operation in Arizona two months after a fatal crash involving one of its vehicles, the company said on Wednesday. Uber Technologies Inc is not shuttering its entire autonomous...
Car That Collided With Waymo Vehicle in Arizona Ran Red Light
May 21 2018 // A driver whose sedan collided with a self-driving vehicle owned by Waymo has been cited for running a red light, police in a Phoenix suburb said. Chandler Police Department spokesman Seth Tyler said that the Waymo-owned...
Arizona Governor Vetoes Auto Insurance Bill, Signs Others
May 18 2018 // Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has vetoed a bill requiring drivers to carry higher limits on their car insurance. Ducey closed out the state’s legislative session by signing 55 new laws and vetoing seven others. Wednesday...
Arizona City’s Online Payment System Finally up Following Cyber Attack
May 17 2018 // Officials in Goodyear, Ariz. say the city’s online payment system is functioning again after a cybersecurity attack affected the software. The city became aware of the situation on its online payment system May 7 and...
Nations with National Regulatory Policies Outpacing U.S. on Driverless Cars
May 15 2018 // Cars that drive themselves are finding the clearest paths to showrooms in the U.K., Germany, South Korea and Singapore, where governments have enacted legislation allowing autonomous vehicles to be tested on public roads....
Car That Collided With Waymo Vehicle in Arizona Ran Red Light
May 8 2018 // A driver whose sedan collided with a self-driving vehicle owned by Waymo has been cited for running a red light, police in a Phoenix suburb said. Chandler Police Department spokesman Seth Tyler said that the Waymo-owned...
What the 9/11 Lawsuits Can Teach Us About Arizona’s New English-Only Law
Apr 24 2018 // On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, a conspiracy of 19 men hijacked four planes departing from three different cities. The two planes that departed from Boston were flown, with 17 minutes of one another, into the two towers...
SBA Loans Made Available in New Mexico, Arizona for Drought Economic Injury
Apr 23 2018 // The Small Business Administration says disaster loans are available to small nonfarm businesses in 13 counties in New Mexico and one in Arizona to offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in two...
MJ Insurance Names Aon’s Zentgraf Director of Analytics in Arizona
Apr 11 2018 // MJ Insurance has named Dan Zentgraf director of analytics of the Phoenix, Ariz. office. Zentgraf will oversee the development of the analytics program to help extrapolate and interpret biometric data. Zentgraf previously...
CopperPoint in Arizona Names Kuhn Regional President of PacificComp
Apr 10 2018 // Phoenix, Ariz.-based CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Co. has named David Kuhn regional president of PacificComp, a subsidiary of CopperPoint, and executive vice president of enterprise distribution for the CopperPoint family...
Arizona Governor OKs Bill Preventing Over-Prescribing of Opioids
Apr 2 2018 // Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has approved legislation that will protect injured workers from being over-prescribed addictive opioids and help control escalating medical costs in the workers’ compensation system,...
Human Influence Makes Autonomous Vehicle Programming Unsafe: Professor
Mar 29 2018 // The way autonomous vehicles are currently being programmed may not be safe because the programs are copying humans, according to a computer professor in the state where the first pedestrian fatality occurred n a collision...
Uber Won’t Renew Autonomous-Vehicle License for California
Mar 28 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc. won’t renew a license to operate self-driving cars in California while the company evaluates how one of its vehicles killed a pedestrian in Arizona last week. The San Francisco-based company...
Arizona Governor Halts Uber’s Self-Driving Car Testing
Mar 27 2018 // The governor of Arizona has suspended Uber’s ability to test self-driving cars on public roads in the state following a fatal crash last week that killed a 49-year-old pedestrian. The decision to block Uber...
After Uber Crash, Florida Still Welcomes Free-Range Robot Cars
Mar 26 2018 // Florida has been trying to lure self-driving cars to the state for testing on public roads, shaping laws that are much more lax than places like California and New York. The fatal accident last week in Arizona, another...
