The CEOs of Toyota North America and Hyundai North America are among the chief executives who have signed a letter calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to allocate $300 million in the state budget to [...]
Lidar maker AEye has given its 4Sight platform new capabilities, enabling its sensors to broaden or narrow their field of view depending on circumstances, company CEO Blair LaCorte told investors recently. The capability is “a [...]
Proponents of automotive “right to repair” legislation in Maine have filed paperwork for a statewide referendum in 2023, even as a federal judge weighs a legal challenge by automakers to a similar measure passed by [...]
Customer satisfaction with the public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs) in the US has remained flat or fallen, as growing sales of the vehicles puts additional stress on an “already beleaguered” system, according to [...]
Georgia’s insurance commissioner has accused Allstate of exploiting a loophole in state law to impose a 25% increase in auto insurance rates there, the carrier’s second since the start of 2022. “I am angry and [...]
General Motors is recalling more than 480,000 SUVs to address a potential defect with the seatbelts in the vehicles’ third-row seats, while the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a query into faulty [...]
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) has announced that it will conduct a week-long, audited research project in coordination with the major North American refinish companies to study the difference between the time necessary [...]
A bill that would expand New York’s wrongful death statute to recognize emotional damages and extend the statute of limitation by 18 months has been passed by both houses of the state legislature. If signed [...]
Federal legislators are once again on the move to regulate autonomous vehicles (AVs). Representatives Robert Latta (R-OH-5) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI-12) have created a bipartisan Congressional Autonomous Vehicle Caucus “to educate Members and staff on [...]
Cepton, the Silicon Valley company under contract to supply lidar units to General Motors, is in the final stages of “hardware verification with production intent,” with production readiness expected by the end of 2022, company [...]
