Connected cars

The move is intended to bolster the insurer's connected car and mobile technology capabilities.

Insurtech will supply trip-based insurance for lost property and medical expenses to customers using Waymo's new ride-hailing service launching in 2018.

The usage-based insurance startup believes that driving frequency is a crucial data point for carriers.

One of her first projects was to develop a Drivewise mobile application that the company could use to collect driving data, rather than depending on customers installing devices.

The tech firn doubles down on attempts to back early-stage companies that are building software around AI, blockchain and computer vision.

Insurer plans to leverage large swath of data to re-evaluate risk as autos modernize.

The new offering supports the insurer's end-goal of bundling all its tech products into a broadly integrated service.

Modus, founded in 2002, tracks driver performance for carriers and fleet managers to conjure up better risk profiles.

Otonomo collects hundreds of data points from cars and packages them to inform insurers' UBI programs.

Though there's less of an onus on insurers to collect driving data for UBI programs themselves, the new ecosystem has other downstream effects, say experts.

Drivers warm to the value of usage-based insurance in Internet of Things era, says survey.

New pilot program enables automaker to enroll drivers into usage-based insurance programs.

USAA and Liberty Mutual have strategic relationships with the connected-car company.

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication and streaming video of drivers can revolutionize both personal and commercial lines.

Transportation company began testing self-driving cars in Pittsburgh last year.

Acquisition follows a series of buys and partnerships inked in recent years by major tech and auto companies with Israeli tech firms.

Intel accelerates a push into what many chip companies view as the next big opportunity: self-driving cars.

Strategic resources director Chris Mullen talks about how her team helps identify the technologies that will change the insurance business.

The auto insurer is looking to build a more robust UBI customer experience, says senior director Nick Grant

Waymo accuses several employees of Otto, a self-driving startup Uber acquired in August, of lifting technical information from Google’s autonomous car project.