All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 4 2017 // They top the list of trending food trucks…and food trucks, in general, are definitely trending. With over 4,000 food trucks on the road today and an annual growth of 8% reported by IBISWorld, the trend is expected to...
Dec 4 2017 // Insurance companies have classified Missouri as one of three states deemed “high-risk” for deer collisions.The other two states considered “high-risk” are Arkansas and Kansas according to State...
Dec 4 2017 // Britain’s largest motor insurer Direct Line is offering Tesla Inc drivers in Britain a 5-percent discount for switching on the car’s autopilot system, seeking to encourage use of a system it hopes will cut down...
Dec 4 2017 // Who needs insurance? Not the perfect risk, other than for contractual and legal reasons. The perfect risk has absolutely no chance, not even remotely, of incurring a loss. If an account has almost no probability of...
Dec 4 2017 // California regulators are embracing a General Motors recommendation that would help makers of self-driving cars avoid paying for accidents and other trouble, raising concerns that the proposal will put an unfair burden on...
Dec 1 2017 // A woman who was hit by a car while protesting against President Donald Trump on a San Diego freeway is suing the driver, the city, the state and a nearby university.The San Diego Union-Tribune reported 19-year-old Maria...
Nov 30 2017 // A self-driving General Motors Co. Bolt slowly drove more than two miles through crowded San Francisco streets in its media debut on Tuesday, but double-parked cars and orange traffic cones tripped up the computer driver,...
Nov 28 2017 // Mike LaRocco, who took over president and CEO of State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. in May 2015, has won the support of the company’s board of directors for an extension of his contract until Dec. 31, 2021.LaRocco...
Nov 27 2017 // The Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts (SJC) has answered a question regarding the priority of coverage for two automobile insurance policies covering a single motor vehicle accident.In its ruling, the SJC decided...
Nov 21 2017 // California regulators are embracing a General Motors recommendation that would help makers of self-driving cars avoid paying for accidents and other trouble, raising concerns that the proposal will put an unfair burden on...
Nov 20 2017 // A bill to reduce auto insurance premiums was defeated late on Nov. 2 by the Michigan House, another blow for longstanding efforts to rein in medical costs contributing to the highest average rates in the country.After...
Nov 20 2017 // Hani Abujudeh, 55, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., the reputed leader of an auto insurance fraud scheme, was sentenced to six years in state prison.Abujudeh was sentenced earlier this month for his involvement with a scheme...
Nov 17 2017 // Tesla Inc. upstaged its own debut of an electric heavy duty truck on Thursday when a red Roadster pulled out of the big rig’s trailer and Chief Executive Elon Musk said the new $200,000 sports car would be the...
Nov 17 2017 // Police in Maine say a man has been injured and another man arrested after a car involved in a collision barreled into a diner.According to police, three vehicles were involved in a collision in Sanford around 3:36 p.m....
Nov 16 2017 // A Georgia college is expanding its training program for commercial truck drivers as the U.S. faces a national trucker shortage. WALB-TV reports Albany Technical College plans to increase the number of seats in its...
Nov 15 2017 // Authorities say nine people were taken to a hospital after a tractor-trailer smashed into cars stopped at a red-light on a Georgia parkway. Gainesville police Cpl. Jessica Van told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the big...
Nov 14 2017 // Two iconic figures in the car industry — former General Motors head of product development Bob Lutz and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance Chairman Carlos Ghosn — have recently outlined competing visions for the future...
Nov 14 2017 // A federal workers’ safety agency is recommending $267,081 in penalties for a Massachusetts auto auction house where five people died when a vehicle suddenly accelerated into a crowd.The Occupational Safety and Health...
Nov 13 2017 // Federal transportation safety officials headed to Las Vegas on Friday to investigate a collision between a self-driving shuttle bus on its first day of service and a truck, which was blamed on human error.The U.S. National...
Nov 8 2017 // Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo will launch a ride-hailing service with no human behind the steering wheel and has been testing the fully self-driving cars on public roads in Arizona, Chief Executive John Krafcik said on...