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Google’s Autonomous Car Company Escalates Legal Battle With Uber
Mar 14 2017 // A self-driving car company founded by Google is presenting new evidence to support allegations that a former manager stole technology sold to Uber to help the ridesharing service build its own robot-powered...
UK Auto Insurers Face Disruption from Mobile Phone & Tech Companies
Mar 3 2017 // Auto insurance may be on the brink of an incursion from mobile-phone and technology companies. Telefonica SA’s O2 unit — one of the first mobile operators in Britain to offer car insurance — expanded its...
Company Founded by Google Accuses Uber of Autonomous VehicleTheft
Feb 27 2017 // A self-driving car company founded by Google is colliding with ridesharing service Uber in a court battle revolving around allegations of betrayal, high-tech espionage and greed. The brewing showdown emerged in a lawsuit...
What is Lidar and Why Are Autonomous Car Makers Fighting Over It?
Feb 24 2017 // Spacecraft use it to measure distance. Farmers use it to work out which fields need fertilizer. Archaeologists use it to map topography. And, crucially for Uber Technologies Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo,...
The Year After Google Compare
Feb 20 2017 // Google’s entry into insurance lead generation and aggregation worried agents and carriers. Would Google disrupt the industry as they have so many other industries? Would they short circuit research-driven consumers...
2016 Insurance Journal Timeline: From Chubb/Ace to Google to Trump
Jan 30 2017 // The merger of Chubb with Ace, Google shutting down its insurance operation, 10 things insurance agents like and don’t like, Florida’s water loss claims crisis, the launch of Lemonade, Trump’s plan to...
Round 2: Mississippi AG Picks New Fight With Google Over Student Privacy
Jan 19 2017 // Mississippi’s Democratic attorney general is once again tangling with Google, alleging in a lawsuit that the company is illegally violating student privacy, even as some Republicans seek to muzzle his ability to file...
Driverless Cars Mapping Route from Labs to Driveways
Jan 5 2017 // Car electronics supplier Delphi Automotive Plc went coast-to-coast in 2015 in a self-driving Audi Q5 sport-utility vehicle to prove the autonomous automobile had arrived. Now, Delphi is shifting from stunts to selling. In...
Top 12 Insurance Trends and News Stories of 2016: Countdown
Dec 27 2016 // In the year 2016, as in past years, there were the familiar or continuing stories including reinsurers still wishing and hoping for a hardening market; property/casualty insurance carriers reporting financial results...
Google Confidentiality Agreement Is Unlawful, Claims Employee in Lawsuit
Dec 22 2016 // A Google Inc. product manager has sued the company, accusing it of unlawfully prohibiting employees from sharing concerns with coworkers, shareholders or the press, and maintaining a “spying program” to prevent...
Twitter, Google, Facebook Sued by Orlando Shooting Victims’ Families
Dec 21 2016 // The families of three men killed at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub have sued Twitter Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. in federal court, accusing the companies of providing “material...
Entrepreneur Shuts Startup After U.S. Questions Safety of Self-Driving Kit
Oct 31 2016 // Self-driving cars are getting closer by the day, but they won’t be coming from hacking phenomenon George Hotz. Hotz, the first person to jailbreak an iPhone and a vagabond of the world’s top tech companies, has...
Facebook, Google Amassing of ‘Faceprints’ Facing Legal Challenges
Oct 26 2016 // Facebook Inc.’s software knows your face almost as well as your mother does. And like mom, it isn’t asking your permission to do what it wants with old photos. While millions of internet users embrace the...
Automakers, Chipmakers Race to Equip Autonomous Vehicles
Oct 21 2016 // Tesla Motors Inc.’s decision to equip all of its vehicles with self-driving hardware has intensified competition among rival camps of technology and auto companies over what equipment will be on board cars of the...
California Rules for Self-Driving Cars Draw Objections from Google, Automakers
Oct 20 2016 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit and automakers objected on Wednesday to California proposals to set new, mandatory rules for testing self-driving cars in the state, which industry officials said could hobble their...
Judge Allows Age Bias Suit Against Google
Oct 6 2016 // A woman’s age-discrimination lawsuit against Google can include others who might have been denied a job with the company because they were deemed too old. A federal judge in San Jose, California, on Wednesday gave...
Autonomous Vehicles Involved in Arizona Crashes
Oct 3 2016 // Google says three of its self-driving vehicles were involved in crashes in the Phoenix, Arizona, metro area in August. The California-based company says its drivers were manually controlling the vehicles during two of the...
Autonomous Vehicles Involved in Arizona Crashes
Sep 21 2016 // Google says three of its self-driving vehicles were involved in crashes in the Phoenix, Ariz. metro area in August. The California-based company says its drivers were manually controlling the vehicles during two of the...
U.S. to Unveil Safety Standards for Autonomous Vehicles
Sep 20 2016 // The Obama administration’s proposed guidelines for self-driving cars, to be formally unveiled Tuesday, include 15 benchmarks automakers will need to meet before their autonomous vehicles can hit the road. The...
Urmson Leaves as Head of Google’s Self-Driving Car Project
Aug 9 2016 // Chris Urmson, chief technical officer of Google’s self-driving car efforts, said he’s leaving as the Internet company moves the project from research into the creation of products. “I am ready for a fresh...
