Latest Auto Headlines
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Turning Sharing Into a Sales Pitch for Pricier New Cars
Mar 11 2019 // The ability to rent his car to strangers for cash convinced Trevor Davis, a high-school teacher in Dallas, to buy a brand-new Honda Civic instead of a used car. “I was going to get something real cheap, an...
Appeals Court Upholds Convictions in Connecticut Car Accident Scam
Mar 8 2019 // A federal appeals court has upheld fraud convictions against two men for their roles in a Connecticut auto insurance scam that involved as many as 50 staged car crashes. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of...
Update: At Least 20 Injured in Indiana School Bus Crash
Mar 7 2019 // A school bus collided with a garbage truck in Indiana on Wednesday, seriously injuring one student and leaving 20 people hurt, authorities said. Preliminary information indicates that 18 students, the bus driver and the...
Pittsburgh Autonomous Car Testing Plan Aims to Boost Public Confidence
Mar 7 2019 // Companies testing autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh will have to immediately report crashes resulting in any injuries and have three days to reveal those that result in any damage. The guidelines are part of an executive...
No Criminal Liability for Uber in Fatal 2018 Arizona Self-Driving Car Crash
Mar 6 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The Yavapai County...
In Separate Cases, 2 Charged in Washington with Insurance Fraud
Mar 4 2019 // Two Yakima County, Wash., residents have been charged in Superior Court in connection with separate auto insurance fraud claims. The charges followed investigations by Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Criminal...
700K State Farm Customers in Arizona Getting 3% Auto Insurance Rate Cut
Mar 1 2019 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is dropping its overall personal auto insurance rate by 3 percent in Arizona. The total state-wide expected impact for State Farm Mutual by this rate decrease in Arizona will be...
The $900 Billion Auto Aftermarket: Where Total Losses Turn Into Big Gains
Mar 1 2019 // Mike Rosser, a 41-year veteran of the salvage car business, remembers a day when auctions for junked cars drew 30 guys standing in the sun, inspecting mangled cars for intact alternators and transmissions. On this February...
Worker at Michigan Car Wash Dies After Pickup Pins Him Against Wall
Mar 1 2019 // Police say one employee was killed and another was injured at a suburban Detroit car wash when a pickup truck struck them. Troy Police Sgt. Meghan Lehman said the accident occurred Monday afternoon at a Jax Kar Wash as the...
Texas Bill Would Require Citizenship to Purchase Auto Insurance
Feb 28 2019 // A Texas state representative has filed a bill that would require proof of citizenship in order to purchase personal auto insurance. Rep. Bill Zedler, a Republican from Arlington (District 96), has filed HB 2648, which...
Three People Killed in Train-Vehicle Collision on Long Island
Feb 28 2019 // Two commuter trains traveling in opposite directions collided with a vehicle on the tracks in Westbury in Long Island, N.Y., killing all three occupants in the vehicle before one of the trains derailed and tore into a...
2018 Was Big Year for Robot Employment
Feb 28 2019 // U.S. companies installed more robots last year than ever before, as cheaper and more flexible machines put them within reach of businesses of all sizes and in more corners of the economy beyond their traditional foothold...
State Farm to Cut Auto Insurance Rates in South Carolina
Feb 27 2019 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Companies, the largest auto insurer in South Carolina, will cut its auto rates in the state for the second time in two years, according to a statement from the insurer. Overall...
1 Killed in 100-Plus Vehicle Wisconsin Pileup
Feb 26 2019 // Authorities have rescued dozens of people stranded by a blizzard that howled across southern Minnesota and dumped about a foot of snow in some places. In east-central Wisconsin, one person was killed and several others...
Zurich Insurance Acquires Dallas Digital Applications Firm, Sea Pine Technologies
Feb 26 2019 // Schaumburg, Illinois-based insurer Zurich North America has acquired 100 percent ownership of Sea Pine Technologies, a Dallas-based company specializing in digital applications for the marketing of vehicle protection...
How to Get Autonomous Cars to Pull Over for Police
Feb 25 2019 // It was still dark on a Friday morning in November when a California Highway Patrol officer started following a Tesla Model S on Route 101 between the San Francisco International Airport and Palo Alto. The gray sedan was...
Florida Deputy Arrested for Filing False Auto Claim with GEICO
Feb 25 2019 // A deputy with the sheriff’s office in Orange County, Fla., has been arrested after he allegedly filed a false and fraudulent automobile insurance claim with GEICO Insurance Co., according to a statement from the...
Rail Tank Car Leak Injuries Lead to Safety Recommendations
Feb 20 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board has issued five safety recommendations following completion of its investigation of the Aug. 27, 2016, chlorine release from a ruptured rail tank car near New Martinsville, West...
Auto-Owners to Acquire Capital Insurance Group in California
Feb 19 2019 // Auto-Owners Insurance has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Monterey, Calif.-based Capital Insurance Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Auto-Owners Insurance Group is headquartered in Lansing, Mich....
How Pricing Insurance for Cars of Future Could Bring Insurers, Carmakers Together
Feb 19 2019 // Dan Peate, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur in Southern California, was thinking of buying a Tesla Model X a few years ago—until he called his insurance company and found out how much his premiums would...
