Self-Driving Cars Are Here in Texas!
From John L. McCraw, III, a Texas Car Accident Attorney and owner of The McCraw Law Group in McKinney, Texas. Drive.ai, a self-driving vehicle company, recently launched a six-month pilot program in Frisco which will provide free taxi services in a small, predetermined service area utilizing self-driving vans developed by the company. The routes have […]
Fewer Safety Standards on Driverless Cars Could be Trouble for Consumers
From Colorado lawyer Amy Gaiennie As the country becomes closer to seeing more driverless cars on the roads than those with humans behind the wheel, a debate rages in Congress. Automakers in Silicon Valley, as well as in major auto manufacturing states such as Ohio and Michigan, are now pushing Congress to prevent individual states […]
Has Uber Really Grown Up?
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has already been at the helm for a year and recently Fortune posted an editorial called Uber is Finally Growing Up. In reading between the lines, it does seem that the company is no longer spiraling out of control. In the past month, a number of stories have been posted talking […]
Why Don’t We Trust Self-Driving Cars?
Self-driving cars promise a future of fewer accidents, less congestion and maybe even lower transportation costs. Yet for many Americans, the idea of driving alongside cars that are 100 percent computer-operated belongs in a science fiction movie. Could a vehicle really move from point A to point B efficiently, safely and with the same ability […]
Is Uber’s Plan for a Flying Car Safe?
Uber has been in the news a lot lately — and not all of the press has been good, especially after one of its self-driving cars killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona during a test drive. That, and some of the other bad Uber press, makes us extremely skeptical about the announcement that Uber is […]
Dangerous Drivers Come in Many Forms
Editor’s Note: This piece first appeared in April 2016 and still has some pertinent information about driving in America. Dangerous Drivers Come in Many Forms: NMA E-Newsletter #377 We came across an interesting piece the other day on The Truth About Cars website. Writer Seth Parks discusses the problems associated with fearful drivers and goes […]
The Future of Delivery
More of us now buy goods online and have them delivered directly to our homes or workplace. Experts claim that retail is slowly dying and that consumers will rely more and more on same day delivery. This not only includes ground service but also the idea of a drone dropping that package off where and […]
Death of Pedestrian Raises Questions About Self-Driving Cars
The death of a pedestrian in Tempe, AZ last month has raised concern nationwide about the speed with which states have opened themselves up to autonomous vehicles. Autonomous vehicles are a relatively new technology, but 32 of the 50 States have either passed legislation to allow testing of autonomous vehicles on its roads, or governors […]
The Utopia of Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous Vehicle (AV) hype seems to be a disease of folks who think they know the future. Our society has already passed the dawn of driverless cars and now the bright light of morning has hit us in the face with some sobering questions. Despite this, utopic euphoria over autonomous vehicles still abounds. Experts and […]
The Good News about Automated Cars
Automated cars are being pushed on us harder than crystal meth in a West Virginia trailer park — by a tag team of the government apparat (which salivates at the prospect of heightened control over our movements) and a car industry which is becoming indistinguishable from the government, except that it wants to profit from […]