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Study: Reflective Black Paint Improves Object Visibility to Autonomous Cars
Self-driving cars have a harder time seeing at night because lidar sensors that often act as the vehicles' "eyes" have difficulty detecting dark-colored objects. New research published in ACS Applied ...
Cellphone Alerts Never Received During Maui Wildfires Prompts Lawsuit Against Carriers
Had emergency responders known about widespread cellphone outages during the height of last summer's deadly Maui wildfires, they would have used other methods to warn about the disaster, county ...
Rising Prices, Low Satisfaction Drive 49% of Customers to Shop For New Auto Insurance
Increased premiums combined with lackluster customer satisfaction scores are driving record numbers of auto insurance customers into the market for a new policy, according to the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. ...
Class Action Settlements Flooded With Fraudulent Claims by Scammers
Artsana, a maker of child car booster seats, last year agreed to settle claims that it had misled customers about how to use its products, offering $50 to people who had bought ...
List of Names for Atlantic Hurricane Season Announced
As the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is set to begin June 1, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has released the names for this year's tropical storms. ...
Survey: Many Employees Who Jumped Ship During COVID Regret It
The Great Resignation during the pandemic saw workers quit their jobs in droves, but a new survey finds that many regret jumping ship. The survey of U.S. workers by the member think tank The ...
Judge Forces Hawaii AG to Turn Over Wildfire Probe Docs to Plaintiff Lawyers
A judge on Friday forced the Hawaii attorney general's office to turn over to lawyers involved in the hundreds of lawsuits over last summer's Maui wildfires all documents, interviews and data ...
Berkshire Wary of “Fashionable’ Cyber Insurance, AI
While Berkshire Hathaway made money on its personal auto insurance business GEICO, and even on a big bet it placed on property-catastrophe reinsurance in Florida last year, one place where the ...