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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment

Automated Driving Technologies – Driving Change in Insurance

Casualty and Liability expense increased at twice the rate of inflation.
Casualty and Liability expense increased at twice the rate of inflation.

It is in the insurance industry’s best interest to use automated driving technology to make things safer through crash avoidance, not just crash mitigation. Unlike crash mitigation, crash avoidance saves the insurance company money. This was Alain Kornhauser’s premise for the Smart Driving Car Summit, Incentivizing Through Insurance. The trillion-dollar question is whether the incentives […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Driving Car Summit

A Culture of Safety Is AV Table Stakes

Depiction of V2V in urban area - image courtesy of U.S. D.O.T.
Depiction of V2V in urban area - image courtesy of U.S. D.O.T.

Building a culture of safety is a prerequisite to building an autonomous vehicle. That’s one conclusion from the insightful Smart Driving Car Summit panel, Safe Enough in the Operational Design Domain. The moderator for this panel, Marjory Blumenthal Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation is well versed in this topic, having recently published two reports on […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Driving Car Summit

Where Are We on the Road to Safe Driving?

Crash avoidance features are helping drivers avoid crashing, according to IIHS data.
Crash avoidance features are helping drivers avoid crashing, according to IIHS data.

The road to safe-driving is one with a destination that is always just out of reach. That is, paraphrasing Princeton Professor Dr. Alain Kornhauser, 100% risk-free transportation is unachievable. With that in mind, Kornhauser did an excellent job of organizing a panel of experts from Europe and America to discuss existing and future solutions to […]

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Will Level 3 with GC Be Able to Compete in the Business Services Market?

Level 3 Communications Inc. announced today that it would buy Global Crossing (GC) in an all stock-for-stock transaction valued at US$1.9 billion (after assumed debt). As part of the deal, which is expected to close by year end, Level 3 will assume $1.1 billion of GC’s debt. The two companies had combined 2010 revenues of […]