Driverless

We can expect commercial auto premium will grow relatively in an autonomous world, while personal auto premium shrinks.

The findings are the latest to put the coming wave of automated driving machines under a microscope over doubts about their safety .

As auto insurers and manufacturers look to help people drive safer, some users are getting frustrated and disabling the solutions.

Pony.ai and Toyota are teaming up on a pilot project as they attempt to accelerate the development and deployment of self-driving vehicles.

More good news is that the development of connected cars is making it easier to find new products and services to offer policyholders.

Insurers need to press forward with creating new products that cater to autonomous vehicle owners, including commercial fleets.

Why would a self-driving vehicle that uses cameras, lasers and sensors to get around need headlights or mirrors?

The car incorporates now-emerging technologies such as hand-gesture controls and seats that sense the “biometric mood“ of the driver.

Why founder — and insurance and VC veteran — Dan Peate thinks the time is right for insurtech to tackle autonomous driving.

Names like Tesla's Autopilot imply that the car has more capabilities than it actually does, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found in a survey

The goal is to bring more engineers with experience in autonomous vehicle technology to the iPhone maker.

Avinew was the acquiring company in the arrangement, planning to incorporate the latter's route-choice technology into its offering for autonomous cars.

Travelers’ Michael Klein kicked off Dig | In with a look at how the driverless future will affect insurance.

LIDAR, which stands for light detection and ranging, is a critical technology as the world’s leading automakers, tech companies and startups race to make fully autonomous cars a reality.

The technology will offer assisted-driving features on highways.

The Google off-shoot is currently the only self-driving company carrying paying customers on public roads, although often monitored by human safety drivers.

Lawyer for deceased said that his team had access to the vehicle after the crash but that the data in the car is proprietary and Tesla has not shared it.

Perhaps smartphones can be improved to detect and warn of oncoming vehicle menaces, or improvements could come on the vehicle side.

Can the automaker really compete with established insurance companies on managing the risk of its vehicles?

Founder Elon Musk has bristled for at how some Tesla customers have paid higher insurance rates, undercutting safety claims about its Autopilot system.