by aieg | Aug 7, 2018 | News
Cars and trucks with electronic driver-assist systems may not see stopped vehicles and could even steer you into a crash if you’re not paying attention, an insurance industry group warns. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, in a paper titled “Reality Check,”...
by aieg | Aug 7, 2018 | News
The Uber Technologies Inc. self-driving test vehicle that killed a pedestrian in Arizona this year may have been able to avoid the crash had the ride-hailing company not disabled Volvo Cars’ safety system, according to a safety group. In a report Tuesday, the...
by aieg | Aug 7, 2018 | News
Self-driving cars are not as safe as their proponents say, and legislation would allow them to get on the road without sufficient safety requirements. Do you remember last March when Elaine Herzberg, a pedestrian walking her bike across a road in Tempe, Arizona, was...
by aieg | Aug 6, 2018 | News
A group representing trial lawyers is putting up roadblocks to a self-driving car bill in the U.S. Senate, objecting to a lack of protections that would ensure the right to sue if someone is hurt or killed in a self-driving car. Supporters of the measure championed by...
by aieg | Aug 2, 2018 | News
I spent several days in 1996 riding on Swedish highways with Christer Gustafsson, longtime chief of Volvo’s safety research department. One day he told me he had never had an accident. “I guess I have spent so much time studying crash scenes I think I just avoid...
