All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 22 2016 // Ride-hailing company Uber says it supports allowing New Jersey’s attorney general to decide what type of background checks its drivers should have to use.Company spokesman Matt Wing told The Associated Press that the...
Jun 22 2016 // High-tech safety features have jumped to a high priority for older U.S. car-shoppers, who want to keep their freedom of mobility, a study released Tuesday reports.Among Americans 50 and up who plan to shop for a car in the...
Jun 20 2016 // Seattle-based PEMCO Insurance announced that nearly half of Northwest drivers admit they illegally use their phones while driving – and a majority do it because they don’t think it’s “too...
Jun 20 2016 // Louisiana drivers struggling to pay unpaid fines from lapsed car insurance coverage can now find some relief.Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office announced the governor has signed a bill to authorize driver payment plans to...
Jun 20 2016 // That’s one small step for drones, and no steps needed for mankind.Autonomous drone transport for humans. Why not? We’re eventually getting autonomous cars so you don’t have to do the driving, and drones...
Jun 17 2016 // Maximum penalties will be higher for violating state laws in Louisiana that ban texting or posting to social media sites while driving and that restrict cell phone use for young drivers.Gov. John Bel Edwards announced this...
Jun 17 2016 // A grand jury has indicted a tractor-trailer driver and his employer accused of causing a fiery interstate crash that killed five Georgia Southern University nursing students.The Bryan County grand jury on Wednesday...
Jun 16 2016 // Teenagers are risky drivers who are very expensive to insure but rates for insuring teens have come down, according to a report from online auto insurance site insuranceQuotes.The study found that U.S. families who add a...
Jun 15 2016 // Uber has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by drivers over background checks conducted by the ride-hailing company, according to a court filing on Wednesday.The case in San Francisco federal court...
Jun 15 2016 // Prosecutors can’t change drunken driving charges once they’re filed without a judge’s permission, a state appeals court ruled in upholding a judge’s decision to order a felony charge against a...
Jun 13 2016 // Former Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. drivers in Austin, Texas, have accused the ride-hailing companies of breaking a federal law by abruptly halting operations in the city after voters backed a measure requiring...
Jun 10 2016 // Louisiana drivers struggling to pay unpaid fines from lapsed car insurance coverage can now find some relief.Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office announced the governor has signed a bill to authorize driver payment plans to...
Jun 9 2016 // That’s one small step for drones, and no steps needed for mankind.Autonomous drone transport for humans. Why not? We’re eventually getting autonomous cars so you don’t have to do the driving, and drones...
Jun 9 2016 // General Motors Co. Chief Executive Mary Barra on Tuesday said she believes self-driving vehicles should keep steering wheels, brake pedals and accelerators in them as the technology develops.“We think that having...
Jun 6 2016 // A court clerk said thousands of drivers across North Carolina have mistakenly lost their drivers’ licenses because the state Department of Motor Vehicles isn’t properly handling paperwork.The DMV for months...
Jun 6 2016 // Ridesharing drivers are safer drivers than the average American behind the wheel, according to research by Boston-based Aite Group.The researchers, using driving analytics data, conclude that average consumers are safer...
Jun 3 2016 // A bill awaiting Gov. Mary Fallin’s signature would authorize Oklahoma district attorneys and law enforcement agencies to contract for the use of cameras and automated license plate readers to enforce the...
Jun 3 2016 // A group representing 5,000 Uber Technologies Inc drivers in New York City filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the ride-share company of depriving drivers of various employment protections by misclassifying them as...
Jun 3 2016 // Lyft Inc. may have more work to do to win court approval of a settlement with 163,000 California drivers who sued to be treated as employees.U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco on Thursday indicated...
Jun 3 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. may have to return to the bargaining table to show just how badly it wants to avoid a jury trial with drivers demanding to be treated as employees.The world’s largest rideshare company faced...