Mercedes-Benz said it will begin selling vehicles equipped with “conditionally automated driving” technology on May 17 in Germany, making it the first OEM to put an internationally validated Level 3 system into series production. Drive [...]
Auto insurers are challenging the legal authority of the Illinois Department of Insurance to require disclosure of the profits they made during the pandemic. The DOI in March directed auto insurers to disclose detailed information [...]
Subaru’s 2023 Solterra battery electric vehicle (BEV), for which pricing was recently announced, rides on the OEM’s new e-Subaru Global unibody and is lighter than its direct EV competitors, a Subaru spokesperson told Repairer Driven [...]
Tesla owners in the UK can now reportedly accept loaner vehicles via the OEM’s app while their vehicles receive repairs covered by their warranties, according to Tesla North. According to a German Tesla owner’s tweet, [...]
Adrian Lund credits the safety features engineered into his 2020 BMW 540i with saving his life in a severe collision last summer. When Lund’s car was stuck head-on by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 91 [...]
The Insurance Industry for Highway Safety (IIHS) said Thursday that it is considering ways to encourage OEMs to develop automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems that will prevent front-to-rear collisions at higher speeds. As part of [...]
After Allstate announced in April that it plans to raise auto insurance rates through this year, Tom Wilson – the company’s chair, president and CEO – said on May 4 that inflation is being addressed [...]
Bloomberg Hyperdrive reports that Apple may be ramping up its development of an electric vehicle (EV) by recently hiring longtime Ford executive Desi Ujkashevic. Ujkashevic helped lead safety efforts and vehicle engineering of interiors, exteriors, [...]
While facing continued supply chain constraints and the semiconductor shortage, Ford and General Motors, during their recent Q1 earnings calls, reported differing financial results – Ford seeing a “mixed” quarter and GM a “strong” quarter. [...]
A Chicago Tesla owner has sued State National Insurance Company, claiming that the carrier raised his premium based on false forward collision warnings that were reported by the vehicle but never actually occurred. The complaint, [...]
