Robot Cars Complain About Humans’ Poor Roads, Lane Markings, Signage April 28, 2016 By Alexandria Sage Volvo’s North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker’s semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during...
U.K. Gives Go-Ahead for Driverless Cars to Be Tested on Motorways March 14, 2016 By Svenja O'Donnell Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will give the green light for driverless cars to be tested on U.K. motorways,...
Insurers Could Find an Early-Mover Advantage from Telematics: Fitch March 7, 2016 The motor insurance industry faces a significant shake-up from two waves of technological innovation – the growth of telematics and...
Michigan Says Potholes Make State a Great Place to Test Robot Cars February 25, 2016 By Keith Naughton Michigan and California, vying for control of our driverless future, are each proposing crumbling World War II military sites as...
Self-Driving Vehicles Meet Their Match When Snow Creates Sensor Blindness February 10, 2016 In Jokkmokk, a tiny hamlet just north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden, where temperatures can dip to 50 below,...
Automakers Outpacing Tech Firms in Driverless Car Patents January 5, 2016 By Joseph White and Paul Ingrassia Automakers, not technology companies, are in the driver’s seat in developing self-driving, “autonomous” cars, and Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. is...
Warm 2016 May Help Put Climate Change on The Map – Even Higher That Is December 23, 2015 By Don Jergler If you think you heard a lot about climate change in 2015, wait till next year – or next week...
Driverless Cars Give Lawyers Bottomless List of Defendants December 22, 2015 By Keith Naughton and Margaret Cronin Fisk Imagine a robot car with no one behind the wheel hitting another driverless car. Who’s at fault? The answer: No...
Opinion: California DMV Rules Would Slow Driverless Car Development December 18, 2015 By Megan McArdle The home state of Google Inc., the pioneering company in driverless cars, has just taken steps to make life more...
Guy Carpenter Report Examines Major Emerging Risks Facing Re/Insurers September 16, 2015 A report published by Guy Carpenter & Co., released Sept. 2015, identified four key areas of emerging risk for re/insurers:...