05 Oct Bill Allowing 80,000 Self-Driving Cars on the Road Passes Senate Panel WASHINGTON – On a unanimous voice vote, a Senate committee approved legislation Oct. 4 that authorizes self-driving car makers to sell as many as 80,000 vehicles a year within three years that would be exempt from current safety standards as manufacturers develop technology for autonomous vehicles. Read more...
05 Oct Hacking Risk Is What Worries Americans Most About Driverless Vehicles U.S. residents are “polarized” on whether to embrace driverless cars, according to a survey by insurer American International Group Inc. Read more...
05 Oct Waymo Engineer Left Trail of Deleted Files En Route to Uber Uber Technologies Inc. hired an engineer to lead its driverless car program last year even after its own research revealed red flags about how much proprietary information he took from his former employer, Waymo. Read more...
05 Oct NAFTA Talks Expose Disagreement Over Mexican Trucking Access As efforts to renegotiate terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement shift from Ottawa to Washington, two trucking industry groups and the Teamsters union are taking aim at a provision in the current agreement that allows trucks from Mexico to operate in the United States. Read more...
05 Oct Self-Driving Vehicles Raising Big Questions Around Drunk Driving, Seat Belts, Open Container Laws and More The idea of highways being filled with self-driving cars may be alluring, but it has highway safety experts raising numerous questions about common contemporary issues like drunk driving, seat belt use and how other motorists might react to a car without a driver behind the wheel. Read more...
05 Oct Senate Committee Approves Self-Driving Vehicles Bill Without Trucking Policy An effort to attach trucking-centric provisions to Senate legislation on self-driving vehicles did not materialize during the bill’s consideration Oct. 4. Read more...
05 Oct Jobless Claims Fall 12,000 to 260,000 U.S. filings for unemployment benefits fell last week as the impact of hurricanes Harvey and Irma faded in several states, Labor Department figures showed Oct. 5. Read more...
05 Oct Class 8 Orders Climb for Fourth Consecutive Month, Top 22,000 Orders for Class 8 trucks soared over a weak year-ago period to increase 63% and reach more than 22,000 in September, analysts said. Order volumes have increased consecutively in each of the last four months. Read more...
05 Oct Trade Gap Narrows to 11-Month Low as Exports Increase Improving global demand and a weaker dollar are helping boost U.S. exports, with the trade deficit narrowing to an 11-month low in August, Commerce Department data showed Oct. 5. Read more...
05 Oct Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS Amazon.com Inc. is experimenting with a new delivery service intended to make more products available for free two-day delivery and relieve overcrowding in its warehouses, according to two people familiar with the plan, which will push the online retailer deeper into functions handled by longtime partners UPS Inc. and FedEx Corp Read more...