UK Weighs Criminal Liability for Self-Driving Car Companies November 7, 2023 By Jamie Nimmo Self-driving car companies could face criminal action in the UK if their vehicles fail to meet safety standards in the...
NHTSA Probes Pedestrian Risks at GM’s Self-Driving Unit Cruise October 18, 2023 By David Shepardson and Nick Carey U.S. auto safety regulators on Tuesday opened a probe into whether General Motors’ self-driving unit Cruise is taking sufficient precautions...
Safety Probe Opened Into Autonomous Driving System in GM’s Cruise Vehicles December 16, 2022 By David Shepardson U.S. auto safety regulators said Friday they have opened a formal safety probe into the autonomous driving system in vehicles...
EU Lawmakers Call for Law Regulating Rise of Robots, Including Self-Driving Cars February 24, 2017 European lawmakers on Feb. 16 called for EU-wide legislation to regulate the rise of robots, including an ethical framework for...
Self-Driving Cars to Create Long Term Challenges for Auto Insurers: Moody’s March 29, 2016 Accident avoidance features in vehicles, such as automatic braking, adaptive cruise control, and lane departure prevention, are becoming more prevalent...
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...
Why Regulation Is Good for Driverless Cars January 21, 2016 By Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View You don’t often hear a libertarian praising a federal regulator when it starts offering “guidance” and “coordination” for some innovative...
Driverless Car Accidents Pile Up As They Obey Laws, Humans Don’t So Much December 18, 2015 By Keith Naughton The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’s supposed to lead to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opposite...
Google, Detroit Take Different Routes on Driverless Cars July 1, 2014 By Alexei Oreskovic and Ben Klayman In 2012, a small team of Google Inc. engineers and business staffers met with several of the world’s largest car...