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Driverless Car Accidents Pile Up As They Obey Laws, Humans Don’t So Much
Dec 18 2015 // The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’s supposed to lead to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opposite right now: The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of those with...
Federal Transportation Officials Want Self-Driving Cars Sooner
Nov 25 2015 // Federal transportation officials are rethinking their position on self-driving cars with an eye toward getting the emerging technology into the public’s hands, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of...
Google Compare for Mortgages Launched in California, Other States to Follow
Nov 23 2015 // Google has officially launched the newest addition to its suite of Google Compare products: mortgages. Google Compare for Mortgages was announced earlier this year, and is now being made available in California with...
California DMV’s Pedestrian Pace on Self-Driving Car Rules Makes Google Antsy
Nov 17 2015 // Hustling to bring cars that drive themselves to a road near you, Google finds itself somewhere that has frustrated many before: Waiting on the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The tech titan wants the freedom to...
Appeals Court Rules Google Book Copying Is Legal ‘Fair Use’
Oct 16 2015 // Google Inc. can go ahead and create a digital library of millions of books without paying authors, a U.S. appeals court said, ruling the company’s plan is a “fair use” under copyright law. The company has...
ACE Takes 24% Stake in CoverHound’s Online Commercial Insurance Plans
Oct 5 2015 // CoverHound has raised $33.3 million in a financing round led by ACE Group, which the company plans to use to build an online commercial insurance platform starting with businessowners policy insurance offerings that could...
ACE Takes 24% Stake in CoverHound’s Online Commercial Insurance Plans
Sep 22 2015 // CoverHound has raised $33.3 million in a financing round led by ACE Group, which the company plans to use to build an online commercial insurance platform starting with businessowners policy insurance offerings that could...
Technology May Outpace Humans on Road to Automated Driving
Sep 14 2015 // From his laboratory at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, automated vehicle pioneer Raj Rajkumar says self-driving cars will evolve step-by-step, with humans staying in charge for a long time to come. More than...
NAPSLO Panel: Tech Disruption May be Good for E&S Market
Sep 10 2015 // “There are no rules. If you can figure out how to quantify a risk and define it, then you can insure it.” Hank Haldeman, president of the board of directors for the National Association of Professional Surplus...
Marketers Have Lost Control of Insurance Buying Process
Sep 7 2015 // After careers spent crafting and controlling their companies’ messaging to customers, insurance marketing and advertising professionals have lost control. Customers and prospects have taken over. Increasingly,...
Marketers Have Lost Control of Insurance Buying Process
Aug 18 2015 // After careers spent crafting and controlling their companies’ messaging to customers, insurance marketing and advertising professionals have lost control. Customers and prospects have taken over. Increasingly,...
101 Sales, Marketing & Management Ideas
Aug 17 2015 // Fellow agents, Insurance Journal readers, experts, educators, marketing professionals, along with Theodore Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Zig Ziglar, CNBC’s Kelly Evans, Harvard Business Review and Fortune magazine have been...
How Google Is Becoming 21st Century Berkshire Hathaway
Aug 10 2015 // Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Page speaks affectionately of fellow billionaire Warren Buffett’s approach to business. With the decision to restructure the Internet-search giant, Page is putting...
Facebook’s Facial Recognition Software Draws Privacy Complaints, Lawsuit
Jul 30 2015 // When you are identified in a picture on Facebook, biometric software remembers your face so it can be “tagged” in other photographs. Facebook Inc. says this enhances the user experience. But privacy advocates...
Tech Firms Collaborating to Make Drone Air Traffic Safe
Jul 28 2015 // Google Inc., the company that brought order to the Internet, has set its sights on doing the same for the flocks of commercial drones expected to someday clog the skies. The search-engine pioneer is joining some of the...
M City: Where All Cars Are Driverless
Jul 21 2015 // A simulated city opened Monday on the north campus of the University of Michigan to test how self-driving cars will travel in the future without mowing down pedestrians or causing colossal crashes. “We had the...
Automakers Seek to Limit Data Sharing with Tech Partners
Jul 20 2015 // Carmakers are limiting the data they share with technology partners Apple Inc. and Google Inc. through new systems that link smartphones to vehicle infotainment systems, defending access to information about what drivers...
How the Insurance Industry Is Using Google Glass
Jul 20 2015 // Improved customer service may be just one benefit insurers could see by using Google Glass in their operations. Michael Clifton, vice president of Insurance for Cognizant, described some of the benefits in the...
Google Driverless Car Hit from Behind, Again
Jul 17 2015 // A Google Inc. driverless car was involved in the fleet’s first collision to result in injury. One of Google’s vehicles braked during a green light because of congestion, and the car behind hit it at 17 mph and...
California Judge Rejects Lawsuit Claiming Google Privacy Violations
Jul 16 2015 // Google Inc. users were blocked from suing over alleged privacy violations by a judge who said they failed to show any of their information had been disclosed. It was the fourth time U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal...
