All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 27 2017 // The Oklahoma Senate has unanimously passed legislation to change how first-time driving under the influence (DUI) offenses are handled in Oklahoma.Senate Bill 643, also known as the Impaired Driver Elimination Act 2...
Mar 27 2017 // As many as four million truck, bus, delivery and taxi driving jobs could be lost if fully autonomous vehicle technology is adopted in a short period of time, according to a new report.With more than 30...
Mar 24 2017 // A Tennessee committee has voted down a bill to protect drivers from lawsuits if they hit protesters who are blocking traffic.On Wednesday, the House Civil Justice Subcommittee voted against the legislation by Republican...
Mar 23 2017 // AIG Asia Pacific Insurance Pte. Ltd. (AIG Singapore) has launched a nationwide search to find Singapore’s best drivers with “AIG On the Go,” a telematics-based smartphone application.“AIG On the...
Mar 22 2017 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is advocating for two distracted driving bills that the state Legislature is considering.House Bill 1371, sponsored by Rep. Jessyn Farrell, and Senate Bill 5289, sponsored by...
Mar 22 2017 // Auto insurance rates in Massachusetts are on the rise and technology is to blame.Industry experts tell The Boston Globe that drivers distracted by smartphones are crashing more often and those cars are now more expensive...
Mar 20 2017 // Seattle’s first-in-the-nation law allowing Uber Technologies Inc. drivers to unionize survived a legal challenge by the ride-hailing company.Washington state Judge Beth Andrus rejected Uber’s arguments that the...
Mar 20 2017 // When dozens of taxi and limo drivers claimed the same home address, it led to a big insurance bust.North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey says 70 Charlotte-area taxi and limousine drivers falsely listed the same...
Mar 20 2017 // What does the Trump Administration have in store for the development of autonomous vehicles and smart roads?With the administration’s ambitious infrastructure plan still far from finalized, Hilary Rowen, a partner in...
Mar 17 2017 // A U.S. judge has given final approval to a settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit against Lyft Inc., ending a legal case that challenged the independent contractor status of the ride-hailing service’s...
Mar 17 2017 // Widespread use of autonomous vehicles will completely transform the motor insurance sector over the long term when liability begins to shift towards manufacturers and traditional risk pools shrink, according to a report...
Mar 17 2017 // Carmakers and suppliers gave widely differing timelines for the introduction of self-driving vehicles on Thursday, showing the uncertainties surrounding the technology as well as a split between cautious established...
Mar 16 2017 // The Texas House on March 15 passed a statewide ban on texting while driving.Members voted 113-32 to tentatively approve the legislation, which will get a final vote in the House before it can proceed to the Senate. A...
Mar 14 2017 // A bill that passed the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee on March 13 aims to restrict texting while driving statewide.While several cities already have ordinances that restrict texting while behind the wheel, SB 31 by...
Mar 13 2017 // Uber Technologies Inc. failed to persuade a judge to approve a settlement offering 1.6 million California drivers an average of $1.08 each to dispense with alleged labor-code violations that their lawyer earlier claimed...
Mar 10 2017 // Another Uber Technologies Inc. lawsuit settlement is under siege, with warring lawyers for drivers again trying to tear the deal apart.The company wants a Los Angeles judge to bless a proposal to pay 1.6 million California...
Mar 9 2017 // Proposition 103—California’s restrictive regulatory regime for insurance—may need a few tweaks as fewer and fewer cars on the road have human drivers. During a March 8 informational hearing, members of the...
Mar 8 2017 // What does the Trump Administration have in store for the development of autonomous vehicles and smart roads?With the administration’s ambitious infrastructure plan still far from finalized, Hilary Rowen, a partner in...
Mar 7 2017 // A pair of $250,000 autonomous buses began driving around an empty San Francisco Bay Area parking lot this week in preparation to move onto a local public road in California’s first pilot program for a self-driving...
Mar 7 2017 // Rhode Island’s attorney general wants to start fingerprinting Uber and Lyft drivers, as well as traditional taxi cab drivers.The state last year adopted a new law that officially legalized ride-hailing app companies...