Latest Autonomous Vehicles Headlines
All the headlines from our Autonomous Vehicles Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Lara, Poizner and Others Vying to be California Insurance Commissioner
Mar 8 2018 // The race is on for the California insurance commissioner posts as we are nearly three months from the primary, but you wouldn’t know it by speaking to people in the insurance industry. Most insurance groups and...
One Issue with Self-Driving Cars Turns out to be People
Mar 7 2018 // One problem with self-driving cars is people. The Los Angeles Times reported that of six crash reports filed in California so far this year, two involved a person attacking a robot car. Both incidents happened in San...
Guest Post: Who Is Liable When No One Is Driving? Finale
Mar 7 2018 // We are grateful for friend of the Academy, Christopher J. Boggs, CPCU, ARM, ALCM, LPCS, AAI, APA, CWCA, CRIS, AINS, Executive Director, Big “I” Virtual University who provided this blog series about autonomous...
Automakers, Tech Firms Urge Congress to Speed Up Autonomous Vehicles
Mar 6 2018 // Major automakers on Monday joined forces with tech companies and a variety of interest groups to urge the U.S. Senate to take up, before the end of May, a stalled bill aimed at speeding the deployment and testing of...
U.S. Wants Public Input on Rules for Driverless Vehicles, Trains
Mar 2 2018 // U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said on Thursday that regulators will seek public input on rules for self-driving commercial vehicles and trains, as the administration grapples with how to regulate their expected...
Autonomous Car Testing Without Backup Drivers Approved in California
Feb 28 2018 // Driverless cars will be tested in California for the first time without a person behind a steering wheel under new rules that state regulators approved Monday for the fast-developing technology. The regulations are a major...
Home Security Camera’s Face Recognition Even Knows Family Dog
Feb 23 2018 // A team of engineers that worked on self-driving cars and helped invent Google Street View wants to help people guard their homes against intruders using the same style of facial recognition that unlocks smart...
Personal Privacy and the War Over Connected Driver Data
Feb 21 2018 // Picture this: You’re driving home from work, contemplating what to make for dinner, and as you idle at a red light near your neighborhood pizzeria, an ad offering $5 off a pepperoni pie pops up on your dashboard...
Israeli Firm Among Those Seeing Profit in Telematics Data
Feb 20 2018 // The road to profits is paved with good data. Every hour, a modern car processes about 25 gigabytes of information — the equivalent of about seven full-length high-definition movies — on everything from engine...
Fewest Human Interventions for Waymo’s Autonomous Car Tests in California
Feb 19 2018 // Waymo, the self-driving arm of Alphabet Inc., is out ahead of rivals based on a key measure of autonomous driving performance, according to a report released on in late January by the California Department of Motor...
Some Nebraska Lawmakers Want State to Become Self-Driving Car Test Site
Feb 19 2018 // Nebraska lawmakers could open the door to self-driving cars and trucks this year with new legislation designed to attract the industry while maintaining public safety. A legislative committee is considering two measures...
Guest Post: Who Is Liable When No One Is Driving? Part 1
Feb 14 2018 // This week (and for the next few weeks) we are grateful for friend of the Academy, Christopher J. Boggs, CPCU, ARM, ALCM, LPCS, AAI, APA, CWCA, CRIS, AINS, Executive Director, Big “I” Virtual University who...
London Unprepared to Be Early Adopter of Autonomous Vehicles: Report
Feb 14 2018 // London is ill-prepared to become an early adopter of cutting-edge transport technology including driverless cars and retail deliveries by drone, according to the city’s lawmakers. While the U.K. government has...
Nebraska Lawmakers Eye State as Test Site for Self-Driving Cars
Feb 13 2018 // Nebraska lawmakers could open the door to self-driving cars and trucks this year with new legislation designed to attract the industry while maintaining public safety. A legislative committee is considering two measures...
Trump Administration Plans Autonomous Vehicles Regulatory Summit
Feb 12 2018 // Auto manufacturers, technology companies, road safety advocates and policy makers will attend a March 1 conference over potential government actions that could speed the rollout of autonomous cars, the U.S. Transportation...
Trial Over Waymo Claim of Uber Trade Secrets Theft Gets Underway
Feb 6 2018 // Uber was either a cheating competitor willing to break the law to win the race to develop self-driving cars, or the victim of an unproven conspiracy theory stitched together by its main rival, Waymo, jurors heard in...
Americans and Autonomous Cars
Feb 5 2018 // Times are changing when it comes to how U.S. drivers feel about autonomous vehicles. According to a new study from AAA, 63 percent of U.S. drivers report feeling afraid to ride in a fully self-driving vehicle. That sounds...
Fewest Human Interventions for Waymo’s Autonomous Car Tests in California
Feb 1 2018 // Waymo, the self-driving arm of Alphabet Inc, is out ahead of rivals based on a key measure of autonomous driving performance, according to a report released on Wednesday by the California Department of Motor...
Americans’ Fear of Driverless Cars Subsiding: AAA Survey
Jan 29 2018 // American drivers are slowly warming up to the idea of relinquishing the wheel to a robot. Although 63 percent of U.S. drivers say they’d be afraid to ride in a fully self-driving car, that’s down substantially...
Senate Committee Hopes to Restart Bill to Ease Entry of Driverless Cars
Jan 25 2018 // The chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday said he is pursuing different strategies to win approval this year of landmark self-driving car legislation that could make it easier for automakers to get...
