All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 12 2019 // London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s decision to charge Uber Technologies Inc. drivers to operate in the city center amounts to racial discrimination and puts some out of business, lawyers for the drivers said Wednesday in...
Jul 12 2019 // If a drunken motorist collides with another vehicle, can the incident truly be called an accident?A federal judge in Texas said “no” and dismissed a plaintiff’s lawsuit seeking punitive damages from...
Jul 9 2019 // Dozens of city employees in the Phoenix, Ariz., suburb of Chandler will use self-driving vehicles at work in partnership with Waymo, an autonomous vehicle company.The partnership will begin this month as Chandler evaluates...
Jul 9 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 of the road that self-driving vehicles will need to follow to truck...
Jul 8 2019 // The Houston police chief says a citywide crackdown has led to a 75% increase in the number of people arrested for drunken driving in the first six months of this year.Chief Art Acevedo said that Houston police logged more...
Jul 3 2019 // Kansas drivers can no longer be charged with a crime for refusing a field sobriety test under a new state law.The Wichita Eagle reported that a change in state law that took effect on July 1 means police can’t ticket...
Jul 2 2019 // Hawaii will soon provide drivers the option to select “X” as their gender on licenses.Democratic Gov. David Ige was expected to sign the bill aimed at reducing discrimination against transgender and gender...
Jul 2 2019 // Drivers in Tennessee could face fines if they’re caught using hand-held cellphones behind the wheel as the new law took effect Monday. The new distracted driving law makes it illegal to drive while holding or...
Jul 1 2019 // With Arizona’s monsoon season quickly approaching, state transportation planners plan to begin installing a new dust-detection system on Interstate 10.The Arizona Department of Transportation recorded 85 dust-related...
Jun 27 2019 // The head of the Massachusetts motor vehicle division has resigned for failing to terminate the commercial driving license of man whose collision with a group of motorcyclists in New Hampshire left seven dead.Volodymyr...
Jun 26 2019 // A man who drove for Uber in New York City has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for abducting a woman who fell asleep inside his vehicle.A judge Monday also ordered Harbir Parmar to pay more than $3,600 in...
Jun 24 2019 // With Arizona’s monsoon season quickly approaching, state transportation planners plan to begin installing a new dust-detection system on Interstate 10.The Arizona Department of Transportation recorded 85 dust-related...
Jun 21 2019 // Intel Corp.’s Mobileye NV unit expects to launch a trial of robo-cabs next year in Israel, the company told Bloomberg News on Sunday [June 16].Intel Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan rode a Mobileye autonomous car...
Jun 21 2019 // Automakers including Tesla Inc. are stoking confusion among motorists by choosing names for their automated-driving systems that wrongly suggest they’re more capable than is actually the case, according to the...
Jun 20 2019 // U.S. auto insurance consumers are quite happy about their coverage, and a growing shift to direct-to-consumer models has driven much of their good feelings.In a new report, J.D. Power says overall customer satisfaction...
Jun 19 2019 // Tougher standards for school bus drivers and a fire suppression system could have prevented the deaths in a 2017 school bus fire in western Iowa, federal safety investigators say.National Transportation Safety Board...
Jun 14 2019 // Faced with legislation in California that endangers their business model, Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. are urging a compromise that would keep their drivers from being considered employees.“We can make...
Jun 10 2019 // A jury in Dane County has award more than $15 million to the family of a woman struck and killed while riding her bike in Madison. The jury awarded $10 million for loss of society and companionship in Emilly Zhu’s...
Jun 6 2019 // Approximately 1 in 5 crashes in Texas involves distracted driving, which continues to be a problem in the state even after a state law banned texting and driving in 2017, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)...
Jun 3 2019 // A New Mexico mayor has proposed billing drivers involved in car accidents resulting in hazardous material cleanup or victim extractions.Mayor Tim Keller’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2020 includes a new...