Painted Bike Lanes Being Replaced With Safer Alternatives Bike lanes are evolving. Cities are increasingly changing them to make them safer in light of fatal crashes involving cyclists... Read More
Student Researcher Studies How to Keep Cars From Being Hacked In 2015, two researchers remotely hacked a Jeep Cherokee being driven by a reporter who documented how the researchers controlled... Read More
QIS: Insurance Carriers Face Enhanced Risk in Age of Big Data California-based Quadrant Information Services, a provider of big data technology for the property/casualty insurance industry, warns that digitization is a... Read More
Window Covering Makers May Finally Go Cordless to Avert Child Strangulation Deaths Window covering cords have been the cause of more than 800 deaths of children globally, according to the Consumer Product... Read More
Study Finds 50% of Drivers Embrace UBI Option A new LexisNexis Risk Solutions study on usage-based insurance (UBI) found that a surprising number of U.S. drivers (50 percent)... Read More
Berkshire’s Jain Offers Plan to Reduce Costs at Gen Re Ajit Jain, one of Warren Buffett’s top managers at Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has a message for the staff that he... Read More
Road Fatalities Surged in First Half of 2016 Traffic fatalities were up 9 percent in the first six months of this year compared with the same period last... Read More
Thrill-Ride Amusement Park Accidents Raise New Demands for Regulations In some parts of the U.S., the thrill rides that hurl kids upside down, whirl them around or send them... Read More
Staying Ahead of Workplace Violence by Identifying Behaviors of Concern In most incidents involving violence in the workplace, there are warning signs that precede an event, according to Jim Satterfield,... Read More
Flurry of Partnerships Seen in Self-Driving Car Race Uber announced Thursday that it will partner with Volvo to make autonomous vehicles. The tie-up is the latest between automakers... Read More