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Americans Less Trusting of Self-Driving Safety Following High-Profile Accidents
Americans are less trusting of self-driving cars following two deadly accidents involving autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles, with half of U.S. adults considering those automobiles less safe than human drivers, according to a new poll. A Morning Consult survey conducted March 29-April 1 among a national sample of 2,202 adults found that 27 percent of respondents said self-driving…
Gov’t: Goodyear tires may have caused 95 deaths or injuries
DETROIT — The U.S. government’s road safety agency says it has received allegations that defective Goodyear motor home tires caused crashes that killed or injured 95 people during the past two decades. The allegations were revealed in an information-seeking letter dated Tuesday that was sent to Goodyear by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The…
Goodyear Knew Of Dangerous RV Tire Failures For Over 20 Years: Court Docs
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. received failure claims over a tire that was installed on thousands of RVs and is linked to at least nine deaths, dozens of injuries, and hundreds of crashes as early as 1996, the first year it was manufactured and installed on motorhomes, according to court documents obtained exclusively by Jalopnik. The documents…
Self-driving Uber death should be a safety wake-up call for Congress
A woman walking her bike across an Arizona street was hit and killed by a driverless car last week. The car was supposed to be equipped with the latest in self-driving technology and a supervising safety driver as a backup if something went wrong. As a result, Uber and other companies have paused their autonomous vehicle testing…
Uber Crash Raises Liability, Data Access Questions
Uber’s and others’ potential liability for the death of a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., hit by a self-driving test vehicle raises complicated legal and data access questions. Local and federal investigations are just getting underway so the facts aren’t well understood yet in the Uber Technologies crash. But the quick appearance of video from the…
Investigation: Goodyear's 20-Year Quest to Keep Details of Deaths and Settlements From the 'Worst Tire Ever Made' Secret
In October 2003, Billy Wayne Woods and his family packed into a luxury $181,000 motorhome for a fun getaway to Florida. Call it a textbook American vacation: Their destination was Disney World, and with his wife, Shirley, his son and daughter-in law and two grandchildren in tow, Woods’ trip would surely be one to remember.…
Can self-driving cars withstand first fatality?
The deadly collision between an Uber autonomous vehicle and a pedestrian near Phoenix is bringing calls for tougher self-driving regulations, but advocates for a hands-off approach say big changes aren’t needed. Police in Tempe, Arizona, say the female pedestrian walked in front of the Uber SUV in the dark of night, and neither the automated…
Driverless cars aren’t safe or ready for the road: Robotics expert
Driverless cars need to pass an acceptable set of standardized tests before they hit the road, said Mary Cummings, a professor in the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering and director of Humans and Autonomy Laboratory and Duke Robotics. “You would never go to an airport and fly in an airplane with a brand new [automated landing]…
Self-Driving Uber Car Involved In Fatal Accident In Arizona
Center for Auto Safety Executive Director Jason Levine discusses a fatal driverless Uber crash on NBC Nightly News.
Jason Levine on Self-Driving Uber Car That Killed Pedestrian
Click here to watch the full clip from CNN.