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Ethics of Self-Driving Cars: Should They Kill Driver to Save Others?
Jun 16 2015 // Imagine being in charge of the switch on a trolley track. The express is due any minute; but as you glance down the line you see a school bus, filled with children, stalled at the level crossing. No problem; that’s...
Google Receives Patent on Drones for Emergency Medical Services
Jun 15 2015 // Google Inc. received a patent on the use of drones to provide emergency medical service. Patent 9,051,043, issued June 9, covers the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to provide emergency medical support. Google said the...
Smart Cars Don’t Eliminate Human Errors
Jun 11 2015 // As companies such as Google Inc., Mercedes- Benz and Volvo Cars race to develop vehicles that are smart enough to drive themselves, even the most sophisticated systems will sometimes be no match for human error. In a...
Google to Issue Monthly Reports on Self-Driving Car Accidents
Jun 8 2015 // Google Inc. said it would give monthly updates of accidents involving its driverless cars. The report for May showed Google cars had been involved in 12 accidents since the company first began testing its self-driving cars...
Google Suspects Movie Studios Conspired with Mississippi Attorney General
Jun 3 2015 // Google Inc. has asked a federal judge to require three major movie studios to comply with subpoenas it believes may help show they conspired with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood as he investigated the Internet search...
Google Drone Prototype Crashes
May 31 2015 // A prototype of the massive solar-powered drone Google Inc. plans to build as a platform for delivering Internet service from the sky was destroyed in a crash at a New Mexico test site. The unmanned Solara 50 fell to the...
Google Compare and ITC in Online Partnership That Brings Agents into Mix
May 27 2015 // Google Compare is using a rating system provided by Insurance Technologies Corp., the Carrollton, Texas-based software provider announced Wednesday. In making the announcement ITC’s top executive said it’s a...
Google Driverless Test Cars to Have Steering Wheels, Brakes
May 27 2015 // Google Inc. will begin testing self-driving cars of its own design on public roads this summer, but they will have steering wheels and brakes, which is not what the company described a year ago. Engineers will operate 25...
Vertafore’s Answer to Google Compare for Agents
May 20 2015 // Some consumers may be agog over Google Compare, but insurance industry vendors like software provider Vertafore have been working to deliver quotes and ratings more quickly and conveniently for years. That’s the...
Court Grants Google Copyright Win in Anti-Muslim Film Case
May 19 2015 // Google Inc., joined by broadcasters and free speech advocates, beat back an actress’ bid to block her appearance in a controversial online video and avoided a ruling it warned would make “Swiss cheese” of...
Google Dupes Insurance Buyers: Insurance Agent Executive
May 18 2015 // Independent insurance agents are accustomed to competition but many are watching with heightened interest the entry of one new competitor in particular, Google Compare. Bill Wilson, director of the Virtual University at...
Agent Support, Ratings Added to Expanding Google Compare
May 18 2015 // The auto insurance comparison website Google Compare is expanding into Texas, Illinois and Pennsylvania, as well as adding ratings and insurance agent support. That announcement was made on May 5 by Stephanie Cuthbertson,...
Self-Driving Cars Getting Hit in California
May 12 2015 // Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies to test them on public roads. Two accidents happened...
Google Says Self-Driving Cars Blameless in 11 Accidents in 6 Years, 1.7M Miles
May 11 2015 // Google Inc. said its self-driving vehicles have been involved in 11 minor accidents in the six years they’ve been in testing, and the automobiles were never to blame for the incidents. All of the accidents during 1.7...
Beyond Cars and Drones, Google Sees Pilotless Airlines
May 6 2015 // The chief of Google Inc.’s experimental cargo-drone program wants to see automated flight go beyond pilotless planes and extend to commercial air travel. Just as automation has proved its worth in factories by...
How Wearable Devices Could Disrupt the Insurance Industry
May 6 2015 // Nearly 50 years after Captain Kirk began using his wrist communicator on the television show, Star Trek, wearable technology is taking hold. From Fitbit and Nike Fuelbands to Google Glass and Golden-I, the technology is...
Agent Support, Ratings Added to Expanding Google Compare
May 5 2015 // The auto insurance comparison website Google Compare is expanding into Texas, Illinois and Pennsylvania, as well as adding ratings and insurance agent support. That announcement was made Tuesday by Stephanie Cuthbertson,...
What Agents Think About Google Compare
May 4 2015 // The independent agency system is no stranger to competition. But one new competitor in the marketplace has some agents and industry experts on watch. Google Compare – which stepped into the insurance ring in March – is...
Could New Insurance Players Disrupt the Market?
Apr 28 2015 // Those with long careers in the insurance industry have seen newer entrants founder on the shoals of our business. Many well-intentioned outsiders don’t understand the innate complexities of the insurance ecosystem...
Compare.com CEO’s Vision for the Future – Right or Wrong
Apr 21 2015 // As early as 2016 or 2017 commercial insurance will likely be bought and sold regularly over the Internet. That likely-to-be controversial opinion is courtesy of Compare.com CEO Andrew Rose. As he speaks to a reporter, in...
