All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 20 2017 // Nearly eight years after a car wreck claimed the lives of a mother and two teens in Cabell County, a trial is set to begin in a lawsuit against Subaru.The trial is slated for Jan. 23 in Kanawha County, according to the...
Jan 19 2017 // Car makers and tech firms are convinced that driverless cars are the future, but they appear to be ahead of consumers in that thinking.Only 23 percent of Americans say they are willing to ride in an autonomous car, while...
Jan 19 2017 // Maryland state’s Motor Vehicle Administration is advocating legislation that would transfer regulatory power of self-driving cars to the agency and the state police, saying the change may improve safety on Maryland...
Jan 19 2017 // Everest Insurance has launched an auto buffer product for U.S. clients with well managed motor fleets of 250 to 1,000 units. The product will be offered through a limited network of appointed wholesale brokers specializing...
Jan 19 2017 // Twice a day, Scott Ozawa’s Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush tells his dental insurer if he brushed for a full two minutes. In return, the 41-year-old software engineer gets free brush heads and the employer which bought...
Jan 17 2017 // Commercial truck drivers with three or more medical conditions double to quadruple their chance for being in a crash than healthier drivers, reports a study led by investigators at the University of Utah School of...
Jan 17 2017 // House members are approving a bill that would require county tax collectors to check whether Mississippians have auto insurance before renewing their license tags.Representatives voted 82-33 Jan. 11 to approve House Bill...
Jan 16 2017 // Airbus Group plans to test a prototype for a self-piloted flying car as a way of avoiding gridlock on city roads by the end of the year, the aerospace group’s chief executive said this week.Airbus last year formed a...
Jan 13 2017 // The Florida Highway Patrol says a man received a ticket after a dashcam in his truck showed him using a cellphone just before the semitrailer he was driving plunged off an Interstate 75 overpass near Tampa. Authorities say...
Jan 13 2017 // An Oklahoma woman was killed in a traffic accident on New Year’s Eve caused by a drunk driver who had been cited several times previously for driving under the influence.Now, an Oklahoma state representative is...
Jan 13 2017 // A truck plant explosion in a small southeastern Minnesota town injured six people on Jan. 11 but many more employees could have been hurt, authorities said.Many employees at McNeilus Truck & Manufacturing Inc. in Dodge...
Jan 13 2017 // Japan’s Takata Corp. is expected to plead guilty to criminal wrongdoing as early as Friday as part of a $1 billion settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over its handling of air bag ruptures linked to 16 deaths...
Jan 9 2017 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Jan 9 2017 // The U.S. personal auto insurance industry saw net premiums written grow 5.1 percent in 2015 — a rate of growth that may not be repeated as rising loss ratios weaken both underwriting and operating results, according...
Jan 9 2017 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Jan 9 2017 // A report gives California’s insurance regulatory environment low marks for auto body repair rules, the insurance commissioner’s call for insurers to divest from coal, its prior approval law and being the...
Jan 6 2017 // The ground crew leader for a Texas hot air balloon company involved in a 2015 deadly crash has been killed in a motorcycle accident.The Austin American-Statesman reports Alan Thomas Lirette was a key witness in the...
Jan 5 2017 // Car electronics supplier Delphi Automotive Plc went coast-to-coast in 2015 in a self-driving Audi Q5 sport-utility vehicle to prove the autonomous automobile had arrived.Now, Delphi is shifting from stunts to selling. In...
Jan 4 2017 // A judge has ruled that a Portsmouth, N.H., auto dealership incurred damages caused by a city sewer line running through the property.The Portsmouth Herald reports Rockingham County Judge William Delker says Toyota dealer...
Jan 3 2017 // The state highway department plans more warning signs on a steep, hilly road in the Arkansas Ozarks after several wrecks involving large trucks.In the past 21/2 years, seven trucks have wrecked on a 2-mile stretch of...