Robot-Car Ethics Need Urgent Societal Review According to Ford Family Member September 14, 2016 By Keith Naughton The great-grandson of Henry Ford called on the auto industry and public institutions to address ethical issues emerging in a... Read More
Musk Says Second SpaceX Accident ‘Difficult and Complex’ Failure September 14, 2016 By MARCIA DUNN SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk is calling last week’s launch pad accident the “most difficult and complex failure” in the... Read More
Aon: Self-Driving Cars May Cut Auto Insurance Premiums By 40% September 13, 2016 By Oliver Suess and Jan-Henrik Förster Premiums for U.S. auto insurers may drop more than 40 percent once the use of automated vehicles has been fully... Read More
Tesla Boosts Radar to Improve Autopilot September 13, 2016 By BREE FOWLER Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the electric car company is making major improvements to the Autopilot system used by its... Read More
Business Moves: Alacrity Services, Oriel Services, AIR Worldwide, CCC September 13, 2016 Alacrity Services Announces Market Expansion With Launch Of Resolve Homeowner Program Alacrity Services launched Resolve to directly connect homeowners to... Read More
NICB: Catalytic Converter Thefts Continue to Rise September 12, 2016 The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reports today that from 2008 through 2015, there were 25,394 catalytic converter thefts across... Read More
Wells Fargo: Private Data Loss More Concerning to Businesses Than Hackers September 12, 2016 With network security top of mind, businesses are nearly two times more concerned with losing private data (47 percent )... Read More
Airbag Defect Linked to Death Prompts GM Recall of 4M Vehicles September 12, 2016 By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN General Motors Co. is recalling more than 4 million vehicles, most of them in the U.S., to fix an airbag... Read More
Texas / South Central News Louisiana Flooding to Cost Economy $10 Billion; 80% of Damaged Homes Uninsured September 9, 2016 The total economic losses of the recent Louisiana floods will be in the range of $10-15 billion, according to Impact... Read More
Ford Recalls 1.5 Million Vehicles Due to Side-Door Latches September 9, 2016 Ford Motor Co. said it is expanding a safety recall to include about 1.5 million additional vehicles to replace side-door... Read More