Lie down in a car, and you’re more likely to get seriously hurt in a crash. But a driverless future is forcing governments to revisit long-standing safety issues.

Self-driving-car crashes can create negligence, product-liability, maintenance, fleet-operation, and insurance liabilities. Which ones apply depends on whether human conduct, a product defect, poor ...

July 2026 set a record for Tesla driver-assist crashes: 236, including 4 fatal ones the public never connected to Autopilot ...

Tesla's driver-assist tech was reportedly active in two fatal crashes where cars suddenly stopped —here's what that means.

A Tesla Model 3 ran a stop sign in Buena Vista, NJ and killed 82-year-old Stephen Field. Tesla's own data confirms its driver ...

A Pakistani man's demonstration of his self-driving car went viral after an unexpected turn of events. While boasting about local talent from the passenger seat, the car suddenly veered off course and ...

Since Waymo arrived on the public stage as Google’s self-titled autonomous-driving project almost 20 years ago, the promise that self-driving cars would dramatically curtail crashes has remained just ...

A new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) shows Waymo’s driverless cars are involved in fewer crashes than human drivers, but the federal system for monitoring automated ...

According to most state laws, at-fault drivers typically pay for car accident damages and injuries. But who bears the financial burden when the car is supposed to be driving? If you own or plan to buy ...

Dr. Timothy Carone is a former astrophysicist and an associate teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. Carone specializes in automation and artificial ...

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