Latest Personal Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Bill Would Ban Ohio Teens from Driving Buddies
Sep 24 2013 // A Republican state lawmaker is proposing tough new driving restrictions on Ohio teens, including prohibiting them from transporting even one additional teenager. State Rep. Rick Perales, of Beavercreek, tells The Columbus...
Not So Fast: Driverless Vehicles Face Driver Caution and Other Speed Bumps
Sep 24 2013 // The world has moved quickly from wonder at the idea of driverless cars to impatient expectation. The Cadillac SRX zipping around a test track in suburban Detroit is flashing a sign: Not so fast. The car can pilot itself at...
Travelers Launching Low Cost, Segmented Product in New Personal Auto Strategy
Sep 20 2013 // The Travelers Companies Inc. is adopting a new strategy to become more price-competitive in personal auto insurance. Travelers’ CEO Jay Fishman explained his company’s personal auto strategy at the Barclays...
Anti-Drunken Driving Campaign Launches in Wyoming
Sep 19 2013 // A new statewide advertising campaign against drunken driving takes aim at the culture of drinking and driving in Wyoming by centering on an alcohol-related crash that killed eight University of Wyoming student-athletes in...
California Immigrants May Flag Status to Get Driver’s License
Sep 16 2013 // To get the driver’s licenses they’ve long sought, immigrants living in California illegally will have to do something many have long resisted: publicly identify themselves. The driver’s license bill that...
Vermont Court to Reconsider Case of Borrowed Keys in Fatal Car Crash
Sep 16 2013 // It’s back to the trial court for a Vermont case in which a woman lent her car keys to a man, who then gave them to the woman’s boyfriend, who then got into a fatal accident. The Vermont Supreme Court ruled on...
N.J. High Court to Weigh Alcohol Test Reliability in Drunken Driving Cases
Sep 12 2013 // Critics of the breath test used in New Jersey drunken driving cases took aim Tuesday in front of the state’s Supreme Court, arguing that modifications mandated by the court five years ago haven’t been...
Driver’s Licenses for Immigrants Declining in New Mexico
Sep 9 2013 // As more states prepare to offer driving privileges to immigrants who illegally entered the U.S., heavily Hispanic New Mexico appears headed in the other direction. An Associated Press review of state records shows New...
Google Tests Self-Driving Car at Virginia Tech
Sep 5 2013 // Google is working with Virginia Tech researchers to bring its vision of cars that can drive themselves one step closer to reality. The technology company spent the past month in Blacksburg testing one of its self-driving...
N.J. Survey: Over 60% of Young Drivers Say They’ve Texted While Driving
Sep 4 2013 // New Jersey auto insurance group Plymouth Rock Assurance released the results of a distracted driving study that found 61 percent of young drivers surveyed in New Jersey acknowledged having sent text messages while...
Brownsville Remains Texas’ Safest Driving City
Sep 4 2013 // Brownsville drivers are among the best in the country. The Allstate Insurance Company’ ninth annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report” lists America’s 200 largest cities in terms of car...
Self-Driving Cars Could Be on U.S. Roads by 2020
Sep 4 2013 // Cars that drive themselves could be on U.S. roads by the end of this decade. But don’t take your foot off the pedal just yet. Automakers, universities and others are at various stages in the development of autonomous...
New Road Signs in New Jersey to Warn Drivers Not to Text
Aug 30 2013 // A recently enacted law in New Jersey will mandate new road signs on state roadways that will inform motorists that texting while driving is prohibited in New Jersey. Under the legislation (A3873/S2406), the commissioner of...
Cities, States with Best Drivers: Allstate
Aug 27 2013 // Drivers in Washington, D.C. are the most accident-prone of any U.S. city, again placing at the bottom of an annual ranking by Allstate Corp. Motorists in the nation’s capital get in a collision every 4.8 years, more...
Driver’s Licenses For Immigrants Declining In New Mexico
Aug 23 2013 // As more states prepare to offer driving privileges to immigrants who illegally entered the U.S., heavily Hispanic New Mexico appears headed in the other direction. An Associated Press review of state records shows New...
Minnesota Man Loses License for Slow Driving
Aug 23 2013 // The Minnesota Court of Appeals won’t return the driver’s license of a man who lost it for driving too slowly on state highways. Fifty-nine-year-old Gary Constans says he doesn’t understand why authorities...
Jury Finds GEICO Must Cover Driver in Fatal Vermont Crash
Aug 23 2013 // A jury says an insurance company must honor the policy of a Vermont man who was convicted of murder in a drunken driving crash that killed a woman in 2010. The insurance company GEICO had filed a lawsuit in U.S. District...
Drivers Over Age 55 Far More Likely to Die in Job Accidents Than Younger
Aug 22 2013 // Employees age 55 or older who drive as part of their jobs are more likely to be killed in accidents than younger colleagues because of declining cognition and greater susceptibility to injury, according to a U.S....
Police: Driver Of Crashed Las Vegas Bus Admits Smoking Spice
Aug 20 2013 // Police in Las Vegas say the driver of an empty tour bus involved in a chain-reaction crash that injured 12 people admitted smoking synthetic marijuana – spice – before the wreck. Police told KLAS-TV they’re...
Powerful Documentary Aims to Show Texting Drivers ‘It Can Wait’
Aug 20 2013 // There are many stories of people who took their eyes off the road for a second to read or type a message and ended up in an accident that changed their lives and the lives of others forever. People who are living with the...
