Latest Personal Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oregonians to Vote On Immigrant Driver’s Licenses
Oct 21 2013 // Oregonians are headed for a statewide vote on a new law that allows immigrants who can’t show they’re in the United States legally to obtain driver’s licenses. Secretary of State Kate Brown’s office...
$2M Settlement Over Minnesota Driver Data Snooping
Oct 21 2013 // An insurance trust representing Minnesota counties has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit over driver’s license data snooping. The proposed settlement was presented on Oct. 3 in federal court. The case...
Louisiana High Court Strikes Down Immigrant Driver Law
Oct 18 2013 // The Louisiana Supreme Court has struck down a state law that made it a crime for people who aren’t U.S. citizens to drive here without carrying proof of their immigration status. The divided court ruled that the...
Connecticut Police Use New Law to Target Distracted Driving
Oct 11 2013 // Connecticut Police are cracking down on motorists who text or use a hand-held cellphone while driving. Authorities call it “high-visibility enforcement” intended to call attention to a state law that took...
$2M Settlement Over Minnesota Driver Data Snooping
Oct 7 2013 // An insurance trust representing Minnesota counties has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit over driver’s license data snooping. The proposed settlement was presented on Oct. 3 in federal court. The case...
Illinois State Police Catch Shaving, Texting Drivers
Oct 4 2013 // Illinois State Police say a man who was shaving was one of dozens of people stopped by officers patrolling a Chicago expressway for distracted drivers. While state troopers only issued the shaver a warning, spokeswoman...
Florida Ban on Texting While Driving Now in Effect
Oct 2 2013 // Florida is joining 40 other states in the U.S. where it is illegal to text and drive. The ban is one of more than two dozen laws passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature scheduled that kicked in on Tuesday, Oct....
Oklahoma Safety Checkpoint Nets 17 Citations for Driving Without Insurance
Sep 29 2013 // Members of the Oklahoma Insurance Department’s Anti-Fraud Unit and deputies with the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office recently wrote 17 citations for driving without auto insurance in Tulsa. Fourteen of the...
Wal-Mart Driver Honored for 4M Accident-Free Miles
Sep 24 2013 // Somewhere out west in recent days, cross-country truck driver Warren Greeno passed the 4-million-mile mark without an accident. Arkansas-based Wal-Mart celebrated the achievement on Sept. 21 and Greeno didn’t have to...
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...
