by aieg | Oct 4, 2017 | News
Legislation that could help usher in a new era of self-driving cars advanced in Congress on Wednesday after the bill’s sponsors agreed to compromises to address some concerns of safety advocates. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved...
by aieg | Oct 4, 2017 | News
U.S. residents are “polarized” on whether to embrace driverless cars, according to a survey by insurer American International Group Inc. The 1,000 people polled were almost equally split on whether they were comfortable sharing the road with autonomous vehicles, with...
by aieg | Oct 4, 2017 | News
Consumer and safety advocates are pressing Congress to scale back the number of safety exemptions for autonomous vehicles in legislation now under consideration, saying they would result in mass deployment of new technology without adequate safety protections,...
by aieg | Oct 2, 2017 | News
A DAIS STUFFED with well-fed lawmakers sure doesn’t look like a battlefield, but make no mistake: The long-awaited war between self-driving vehicles and the humans they would replace has begun. And the humans just won the first skirmish. Thursday morning, the...
by aieg | Oct 2, 2017 | News
Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Hackett said he would not yet ride in an autonomous car on public roads, although the automaker remains “on track” to deliver a self-driving car of its own in 2021. Hackett, speaking at a breakfast lecture series at Grand Valley...
by aieg | Sep 29, 2017 | News
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate have dropped self-driving trucks from legislation from that would allow automakers to operate thousands of autonomous cars per year on U.S. roads. The action came after a high-profile campaign from labor unions to protect the jobs of...
