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More Relatives of Victim of Uber Driverless Car Crash Hire Lawyer
Apr 1 2018 // More family members of a woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc. self-driving vehicle have hired legal counsel, indicating the ride services firm’s legal problems may not be over in the first fatality caused by an...
States Experiment with How to Address Towing and Storing Abuses
Mar 31 2018 // As stories about nonconsensual or “predatory” practices proliferate, a number of states have begun to consider legislation to mitigate some of the abuses of the towing and vehicle-storage industry. However, we...
Uber Settles with Family of Victim of Driverless Accident
Mar 29 2018 // The family of the woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc. self-driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company, ending a potential legal battle over the first fatality caused by an...
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...
U.S. Launches Investigation into Fatal Tesla Crash in California
Mar 28 2018 // A fatal crash and vehicle fire of a Tesla Inc Model X near Mountain View, Calif., last week has prompted a federal field investigation, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said, sparking a big selloff in Tesla...
A Look at Risk. Are New Risks Really New?
Mar 28 2018 // “The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing.” Alphonse Kerr “It’s like deja-vu, all over again.” Yogi Berra The world is undergoing a pace of change unlike anything that...
Uber Cut Back on Safety Sensors on Volvo Involved in Fatal Accidents: Reuters
Mar 27 2018 // When Uber decided in 2016 to retire its fleet of self-driving Ford Fusion cars in favor of Volvo sport utility vehicles, it also chose to scale back on one notable piece of technology: the safety sensors used to detect...
Startup Auto Insurer Root Raises $51 Million for Further Expansion
Mar 27 2018 // Columbus, Ohio-based auto insurer Root Insurance, which incorporates individual driver behavior data from mobile phone apps in every quote, announced the closing of a $51-million Series C funding round. Investors were led...
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...
More than 50,000 British Drivers Initiate ‘Dieselgate’ Suit Against VW
Mar 27 2018 // Lawyers for more than 50,000 British car owners kicked off a lawsuit against Volkswagen in London’s High Court on Tuesday in a battle for compensation over a diesel emissions scandal that has engulfed Europe’s...
Ryder Rolls Out Commercial Vehicle Sharing Program
Mar 27 2018 // The sharing economy is coming to the truck rental industry. Truck leasing and rental firm Ryder System is launching an online sharing platform that offers fleet owners with idle vehicles the opportunity to rent their...
Supplier Claims Uber Disabled Its Safety Tech in Volvo That Caused Pedestrian Fatality
Mar 27 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc. disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in the Volvo SUV that struck and killed a woman in Arizona last week, according to the auto-parts maker that supplied the vehicle’s radar...
Waymo Claims Its Driverless Car Would Have Avoided Uber’s Fatal Accident
Mar 26 2018 // The head of Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving unit, Waymo, said on Saturday that the company’s technology would have safely handled the situation confronting an Uber self-driving vehicle last week when it...
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...
Liquidation Order Issued for Auto Insurer with More Than 42K Policies in Pennsylvania
Mar 23 2018 // A Texas court has issued an order of liquidation for Access Insurance Company, an auto insurer that has 42,785 policies in Pennsylvania. This means Pennsylvanians that currently have auto insurance through Access Insurance...
Daughter of Pedestrian Killed by Uber Driverless Car Hires Lawyer
Mar 22 2018 // The daughter of the woman killed by an Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona has retained a personal injury lawyer, underlying the potential high stakes of the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle. The law firm of...
Police Release Video of Fatal Collision of Uber Driverless Vehicle with Pedestrian
Mar 22 2018 // Police in Arizona on Wednesday released a short video of a fatal collision between an Uber self-driving vehicle and a pedestrian, as investigators probe the accident that has put new focus on the safety of autonomous...
Driving in Snow: Difficult for Humans and Driverless Cars
Mar 22 2018 // A Canadian town known for its annual theater festival is emerging as a hub of “snowtonomous” research, as automakers face demands to produce self-driving cars that can perform in snow and sleet. But testing...
Driverless Vehicles Provide Test of Attitudes Toward Risk: Kemp
Mar 22 2018 // Uber has suspended road tests of self-driving vehicles after the first pedestrian was killed by one of its vehicles operating under autonomous computer control. Proponents of self-driving vehicles claim they would be...
