UK Is First Country to Green Light Self-Driving Cars on Motorways April 28, 2021 By Nick Carey The UK government on Wednesday became the first country to announce it will regulate the use of self-driving vehicles at...
Insurers Warn that Drivers May Not Understand Limits of ‘Automated’ Car Technology April 21, 2021 By Nick Carey, Paul Lienert and Tina Bellon LONDON – Britain’s goal to be a leader in adopting self-driving cars could backfire unless automakers and government regulators spell...
Europeans Buy Older Cars to Avoid Public Transport During Pandemic November 30, 2020 By Nick Carey and Inti Landauro LONDON/MADRID – Want a cheap used car to nip around town without running the gauntlet of coronavirus on public transport?...
TuSimple Launches Self-Driving Truck Network with Berkshire’s McLane, UPS July 2, 2020 By Nick Carey U.S. technology company TuSimple on Wednesday launched a self-driving freight network with UPS and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. supply chain unit...
Safety Experts Weigh In on Autonomous Car Standards After Uber, Tesla Fatal Crashes April 4, 2018 By Nick Carey and Paul Lienert Autonomous cars should be required to meet standards on their ability to detect potential hazards and better ways are needed...
GM Seeks OK for Self-Driving Commercial Vehicle Without Steering Wheel for 2019 January 12, 2018 By Nick Carey and Paul Lienert General Motors Co. is seeking U.S. government approval for a fully autonomous car – one without a steering wheel, brake...
Ford Denies Truck Owners’ Claims of Diesel Cheating January 11, 2018 By Nick Carey Ford Motor Co. installed software that enabled its F-250 and F-350 Super Duty trucks to cheat at passing federal emissions...
Rethinking Freight Flood Risk Management After Hurricane Harvey September 8, 2017 By Nick Carey A week before Hurricane Harvey walloped Houston, workers for Union Pacific Corp. began moving rail cars out of the railroad’s...
Tackling Houston’s Flood-Damaged Cars Takes an Army of Tow Trucks September 8, 2017 By Nick Carey How do you remove hundreds of thousands of damaged cars from a massive city still mired in water and muck?...
Small Trucking Firms Fear Being Driven Out of Business by Electronic Log Rule October 14, 2016 By Nick Carey A new regulation that will force U.S. trucking companies to electronically log employee hours is designed to limit accidents by...