Latest Autonomous Vehicles Headlines

All the headlines from our Autonomous Vehicles Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Fewest Human Interventions for Waymo’s Autonomous Car Tests in California

Feb 19 2018 // Waymo, the self-driving arm of Alphabet Inc., is out ahead of rivals based on a key measure of autonomous driving performance, according to a report released on in late January by the California Department of Motor...

Some Nebraska Lawmakers Want State to Become Self-Driving Car Test Site

Feb 19 2018 // Nebraska lawmakers could open the door to self-driving cars and trucks this year with new legislation designed to attract the industry while maintaining public safety.A legislative committee is considering two measures...

Guest Post: Who Is Liable When No One Is Driving? Part 1

Feb 14 2018 // This week (and for the next few weeks) we are grateful for friend of the Academy, Christopher J. Boggs, CPCU, ARM, ALCM, LPCS, AAI, APA, CWCA, CRIS, AINS, Executive Director, Big “I” Virtual University who...

London Unprepared to Be Early Adopter of Autonomous Vehicles: Report

Feb 14 2018 // London is ill-prepared to become an early adopter of cutting-edge transport technology including driverless cars and retail deliveries by drone, according to the city’s lawmakers.While the U.K. government has...

Nebraska Lawmakers Eye State as Test Site for Self-Driving Cars

Feb 13 2018 // Nebraska lawmakers could open the door to self-driving cars and trucks this year with new legislation designed to attract the industry while maintaining public safety.A legislative committee is considering two measures...

Trump Administration Plans Autonomous Vehicles Regulatory Summit

Feb 12 2018 // Auto manufacturers, technology companies, road safety advocates and policy makers will attend a March 1 conference over potential government actions that could speed the rollout of autonomous cars, the U.S. Transportation...

Trial Over Waymo Claim of Uber Trade Secrets Theft Gets Underway

Feb 6 2018 // Uber was either a cheating competitor willing to break the law to win the race to develop self-driving cars, or the victim of an unproven conspiracy theory stitched together by its main rival, Waymo, jurors heard in...

Americans and Autonomous Cars

Feb 5 2018 // Times are changing when it comes to how U.S. drivers feel about autonomous vehicles. According to a new study from AAA, 63 percent of U.S. drivers report feeling afraid to ride in a fully self-driving vehicle. That sounds...

Fewest Human Interventions for Waymo’s Autonomous Car Tests in California

Feb 1 2018 // Waymo, the self-driving arm of Alphabet Inc, is out ahead of rivals based on a key measure of autonomous driving performance, according to a report released on Wednesday by the California Department of Motor...

Americans’ Fear of Driverless Cars Subsiding: AAA Survey

Jan 29 2018 // American drivers are slowly warming up to the idea of relinquishing the wheel to a robot.Although 63 percent of U.S. drivers say they’d be afraid to ride in a fully self-driving car, that’s down substantially...

Senate Committee Hopes to Restart Bill to Ease Entry of Driverless Cars

Jan 25 2018 // The chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday said he is pursuing different strategies to win approval this year of landmark self-driving car legislation that could make it easier for automakers to get...

Tesla Autopilot Crash with Parked Fire Truck in Los Angeles Under Investigation

Jan 24 2018 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will investigate an accident involving a Tesla Inc. Model S sedan that rear-ended a firetruck on a freeway near Los Angeles on Monday, the agency said.The agency will send two...

If They Try It, They’ll Like It: How Ridesharing, Autonomous Cars Will Win Over the Public

Jan 23 2018 // Five years ago, when she was still an insurance broker with Marsh, Kate Sampson called insurance underwriters at American International Group (AIG) and other insurers with a new concept.“I’m working with this...

Backers Call for Restarting Stalled Bipartisan Bill to Speed Autonomous Vehicles

Jan 17 2018 // Automakers and lawmakers expressed hope on Tuesday that U.S. Congress would soon pass a stalled bill aimed at speeding self-driving cars to market, even as safety advocates argued for more performance requirements.The U.S....

GM Seeks OK for Self-Driving Commercial Vehicle Without Steering Wheel for 2019

Jan 12 2018 // General Motors Co. is seeking U.S. government approval for a fully autonomous car – one without a steering wheel, brake pedal or accelerator pedal – to enter the automaker’s first commercial ride-sharing...

Federal Safety Agency Seeks to Remove Roadblocks to Autonomous Trucks, Buses

Jan 11 2018 // Federal regulators are taking the first step toward creating a policy guiding the development of autonomous transportation beyond self-driving cars to include trucks, buses and other ground-based modes.The U.S....

Would You Put Your Newborn in A Self Driving Car?

Jan 9 2018 // I have anxiety about the movement toward self driving cars. I’ve challenged myself to be forward thinking and familiarize myself with the technology and enhanced safety it promises to bring. I understand that we are...

Drivers Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon, Say Driverless Car Leaders

Jan 9 2018 // Carmakers and tech companies have fallen over one another in recent weeks to show the strides they’ve made with self-driving cars. At CES — usually a stage for bragging about futuristic bona fides — top...

Telematics CEO: 5 Trends to Watch in 2018 in Auto Insurance

Jan 5 2018 // Auto insurance is experiencing its most seismic shift since it began over 100 years ago. If 2017 shook up the industry with an increasing number of carriers adopting mobile telematics programs for UBI, 2018 will break the...

Self-Driving Technology Being Developed to Enable Driving on Snowy Roads

Dec 27 2017 // Self-driving cars may be the future, but relinquishing control of the wheel certainly takes some getting used to. It’s one thing to go (slowly) with the flow on well-marked city streets, for which many self-driving...