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Autonomous Car Makers Pursue Sharing of Risk and Investment
BMW and Daimler, the world's top luxury carmakers, have announced alliances with suppliers, talking up the virtues of having a bigger pool of engineers to develop a self-driving car. But another ...
From Here to Autonomy: Morality and Retirement Timeline for Auto Insurance Pros
While the media, ethicists and perhaps the public like to ponder whether a self-driving car in a crisis should be programmed to hit a group of nuns crossing the street or hit a bus full of ...
U.S. House Committee Signs off on Quicker Rollout of Self-Driving Cars
An influential U.S. House committee on Thursday approved a revised bipartisan bill on a 54-0 vote that would speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls and bar states from ...
Does Consumer Watchdog Founder Want Asimov-like Rules for Robot Cars?
A virtual grin arose on the face of Harvey Rosenfield with the mention of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. The mention was made during a phone call, but the overwhelming satisfaction of a smile ...
Allianz, GM, BMW, Toyota Invest in Self-Driving Software Startup Nauto
General Motors Co and Japan's Softbank Group Corp are among the latest investors in Nauto, a Silicon Valley startup developing software for self-driving vehicles. Nauto, based in Palo Alto, said on ...
States Couldn’t Impose Driverless Car Rules Under House Panel-Approved Proposal
A U.S. House panel on Wednesday approved a sweeping proposal by voice vote to allow automakers to deploy up to 100,000 self-driving vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards and bar ...
PCI: Insurers Must Get ‘Reasonable’ Access to Automated Vehicle Data
The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America wants future federal rules governing driverless vehicles to guarantee insurers "reasonable" access to data from cars with automated driving ...
Ex-Uber CEO Alleged to Know Engineer Possessed Google Driverless Car Info
Ousted Uber Technologies Inc. head Travis Kalanick learned early last year that the engineer who until recently oversaw the company's driverless car project possessed discs of information from ...