The need to decrease emissions and improve vehicle efficiency will accelerate lightweighting efforts by the OEMs and their suppliers, industry representatives agreed last week in a livestreamed roundtable discussion presented by the Center for Automotive [...]
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced new, “landmark” fuel economy standards on Friday that follow President Joe Biden’s executive order aimed at a future with clean cars. The new [...]
The Justice Department has sued to block insurer UnitedHealth from acquiring technology company Change Healthcare, saying that the $13 billion acquisition would harm competition by giving United “control of a critical data highway.” The department [...]
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ) are urging state insurance departments to investigate “racial bias and discrimination in insurance claims handling and anti-fraud efforts” following a March [...]
Boston tech startup NODAR has been awarded a patent for multi-camera 3D vision technology for autonomous driving that it claims will be self-calibrating, even after a minor collision, and much less expensive than comparable lidar [...]
The Women’s Industry Network (WIN) has honored seven women for their career achievements in the collision repair industry with its 2022 Most Influential Women (MIW) awards. The seven are: Allison Boever, chief human resources officer, [...]
CCC Intelligent Solutions and asTech have announced a partnership that will make it easier for repair shops to capture and document scan information in CCC ONE workfiles. Through the integration of services, information from asTech [...]
Georgia’s insurance commissioner has directed auto insurers to include the full amount of taxes that would be paid on a replacement vehicle when settling total loss claims. John F. King said he issued the directive [...]
The “Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022,” also known as “Secure 2.0,” was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday. If it becomes law, employers would be required to automatically put 3% of [...]
The U.S. Department of Transportation confirmed to Reuters that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Deputy Administrator Steven Cliff will make a “major announcement” about fuel economy standards Friday. The [...]
