All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 15 2019 // Seven in 10 Americans don’t want to go anywhere near self-driving cars.The portion of Americans who fear autonomous vehicles—71 percent in the American Automobile Association’s latest survey—is virtually...
Mar 14 2019 // The Arkansas Legislature has approved a bill that allows pilot programs to test fully autonomous vehicles on state roads.The measure will let organizations submit operation and safety plans for up to three autonomous...
Mar 13 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. will pay $20 million to settle California lawsuits challenging the company’s classification of drivers as independent contractors, and not employees owed the benefits of traditional...
Mar 12 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit brought by drivers nearly six years ago, according to court filings, resolving one of its many legal battles with drivers ahead of a hotly...
Mar 11 2019 // A statewide shortage of trained medical personnel has left many rural county ambulance services having to delay hospital transfers to ensure they have enough staff for emergencies.For example, in Norton County in northwest...
Mar 8 2019 // Daimler and BMW are teaming up to develop autonomous driving technology to cut costs and set an industry standard that can help to shape future regulation for self-driving cars, senior executives said on Wednesday [March...
Mar 6 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said on Tuesday.The Yavapai County...
Mar 4 2019 // A limousine company dispute in Connecticut has resulted in a $750,000 settlement for 23 current and former drivers.The Connecticut Law Tribune reports that drivers for Connecticut Limousine recently agreed to settle their...
Mar 1 2019 // Rhode Island police have arrested a man they say was driving under the influence when he struck more than 40 other vehicles.Police say 45-year-old Christopher Paolissi, of Foster, was “zig-zagging” his pickup...
Mar 1 2019 // Irish drivers have been warned they will need a special insurance document to cross the currently invisible border to Northern Ireland after next month if the U.K. leaves the European Union without a deal.The Motor...
Feb 28 2019 // Authorities say an 82-year-old church bus driver is charged with driving while intoxicated after five people were injured when a bus returning from a Chicago Bulls game went off the road in northwestern Indiana. Indiana...
Feb 27 2019 // A recently commissioned survey of 503 Minneapolis-area drivers by The Travelers Companies Inc. found that 71 percent of respondents use a mobile device while driving, with 84 percent of millennials, 72 percent of Gen Xers...
Feb 18 2019 // New research suggests that drivers who use hands-free electronic devices, as opposed to handheld ones, are not increasing their risk of getting into a crash.According to the research from Virginia Tech Transportation...
Feb 15 2019 // The transportation industry is considered a barometer of the U.S. economy. If freight is trending up, so too is the U.S. economy. But capacity constraints for trucking – including a shortage of qualified drivers, low...
Feb 14 2019 // For those who work from home, carpool frequently or use public transit more than they drive, Nationwide is launching SmartMiles, an auto insurance policy for low-mileage drivers.BuildIng on its telematics SmartRide...
Feb 14 2019 // Dubai-based ride-hailing service Careem Networks FZ is looking for new ways to get ahead of main rival Uber Technologies Inc. in the Middle East.Careem launched an accident insurance program for passengers as well as...
Feb 13 2019 // Months after Uber Technologies Inc. won a reprieve in a high-stakes battle over its operations in the U.K. capital, its London license is back in question.United Cabbies Group, which represents taxi drivers in the capital,...
Feb 12 2019 // Hawaii lawmakers have advanced a measure that would allow judges to prohibit people convicted of drunken driving from purchasing or publicly consuming alcohol for three years after their conviction.The measure, introduced...
Feb 11 2019 // New research suggests that drivers who use hands-free electronic devices, as opposed to handheld ones, are not increasing their risk of getting into a crash.According to the research from Virginia Tech Transportation...
Feb 5 2019 // People would be mostly barred from using mobile devices while driving under proposed legislation in South Dakota.Under House Bill 1088, which was scheduled to be considered by the House Transportation Committee on Feb. 5,...