Uber had disabled an emergency braking system in a self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Arizona in March after failing to identify the pedestrian, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released on Thursday.
For the first time, the National Transportation Safety Board is recommending all new school buses be equipped with lap and shoulder seat belts, after the agency released findings from a special investigation report prompted by two deadly 2016 crashes.
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Uber has shut down its self-driving car operation in Arizona two months after a fatal crash involving one of its vehicles, the company said on Wednesday.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today released a study on the number of animal-related insurance losses for the years 20142017. The data is gleaned from insurance claims for losses that occurred in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
A catastrophe report has found that the US re/insurance sector is on the hook for more than half of the total economic loss in April resulting from severe convective weather such as thunderstorms and tornados.
The sprawling Tinder Fire in Arizona has destroyed 33 primary homes and 54 minor structures since it was sparked by an abandoned illegal campfire two weeks ago, officials said.
Officials say a week-old wildfire burning in an Arizona forest has destroyed 30 homes and 17 other structures. Fire management officials included the count of destroyed or heavily damaged buildings in a Thursday update. The fire is 12 percent contained.
The fast-moving Tinder Fire grew to more than 8,600 acres Monday morning, or almost 13.5 square miles, a day after officials evacuated several small communities in central Arizona because the wildfire already had burned an unknown number of structures in its path.
Two men have died after a boat crash at Lake Havasu. It happened Saturday around 12:30 p.m. The Mohave County Sheriffs Office says a large boat that was traveling at high speeds had crashed and then sank.
The governor of Arizona on Monday suspended Ubers ability to test self-driving cars on public roads in the state following a fatal crash last week that killed a 49-year-old pedestrian.
The daughter of the woman killed by an Uber [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle in Arizona has retained a personal injury lawyer, underlying the potential high stakes of the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle.
A woman in Arizona has died after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber in what is believed to be the first time a pedestrian has been killed by an autonomous vehicle.
Four survivors of a deadly tour helicopter crash onto the jagged rocks of the Grand Canyon were being treated at a Nevada hospital on Sunday while crews tackled difficult terrain in a remote area to try to recover the bodies of three other people.