All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 5 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Wednesday cited driver errors and Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot design as the probable cause of a January 2018 crash of a Model S into a parked fire truck on a highway in...
Sep 4 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have argued to Chicago city officials that the names of their drivers should be treated as “trade secrets,” and should not be released because competitors could use the...
Aug 30 2019 // Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc, on Thursday urged the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to “promptly” remove regulatory barriers for cars without steering...
Aug 29 2019 // A Wisconsin man who spent three years lobbying Minnesota lawmakers to ban the use of cellphones or other electronic devices while driving said he wants his home state to adopt similar legislation.Thomas Goeltz lost his...
Aug 28 2019 // After years of failed attempts to eliminate it, the Driver Responsibility Program will end on Sept. 1. A measure signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in June, House Bill 2048, shutters the 16-year-old program that left more...
Aug 28 2019 // I read an article last week about the intersection of gig work, an innocent injured party, insurance, and big business. Let me summarize the best I can. A driver is in traffic and is suddenly hit by another driver, who was...
Aug 22 2019 // Speeding is the riskiest kind of aggressive driving, according to an analysis of data from on-board telematics devices in vehicles.Researchers at Canada’s University of Waterloo examined data from 28 million trips...
Aug 19 2019 // Businesses and organizations paid nearly two percent more in 2018 than they did in 2017 to cover the total cost of risk.Reversing the trend of falling average TCOR per $1,000 of revenue seen from 2013 to 2017, average TCOR...
Aug 13 2019 // Lyft Inc.’s image as the “woke” ride-hailing company faces a new challenge from a rash of lawsuits filed by women who claim they were sexually assaulted by drivers summoned to take them home after...
Aug 13 2019 // Police have arrested a Lyft driver on suspicion of raping a female passenger in the San Francisco Bay Area.San Bruno police say the 25-year-old victim told investigators she scheduled the ride early Saturday while...
Aug 9 2019 // An Alabama truck driving school owner has been charged with bribing a license examiner to show favoritism toward his students. News outlets report 72-year-old James Welburn was indicted and arrested July 25. He’s...
Aug 2 2019 // A reminder to Minnesota motorists — keep your hands off your cellphone while driving.A new state law took effect Aug. 1 banning drivers from talking on the phone unless they are using a hands-free device. Officials say...
Jul 26 2019 // A jury says a now defunct West Virginia bar and the company that owned the land under the bar are mostly responsibly in a drunken driving death. The Journal of Martinsburg reported Tuesday that Dirty Dawg Saloon LLC was...
Jul 24 2019 // A woman was arrested after running a red light in a rented Tesla in San Francisco and causing a crash that killed a tourist and left his wife critically injured, authorities said.Officers were investigating whether the...
Jul 18 2019 // Fewer people died in car crashes on Nevada roads in June than they did a year earlier, according to state data.The Nevada Department of Public Safety reported 16 deaths from 16 crashes in June, which is almost half as many...
Jul 17 2019 // Police in Alabama have searched five towing companies that are under investigation for possible insurance fraud. New outlets report officers executed search warrants Friday at more than a dozen locations. Mobile Police...
Jul 15 2019 // Austin, TX, July 15, 2019 – The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research launched a new and improved online learning experience that educates insurance and risk professionals about new changes,...
Jul 15 2019 // As companies work to design fleets of commercial trucks that won’t need a human in the driver’s seat, Louisiana lawmakers have written rules that self-driving vehicles will need to follow to truck commerce...
Jul 15 2019 // Dozens of city employees in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler will use self-driving vehicles at work in partnership with Waymo, an autonomous vehicle company.The partnership will begin sometime this month as Chandler...
Jul 12 2019 // Officials in Ohio have opened a $45 million testing ground for self-driving vehicles.The Transportation Research Center Inc. unveiled its 540-acre (218.5-hectare) SMARTCenter on Wednesday. The state-of-the-art automated...