Last week, a pair of studies came to seemingly opposite conclusions on whether rising marijuana use is causing an increase in car crashes in states that have legalized the drug.
The first, conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, analyzed insurance claims for vehicle collisions filed between January 2012 and October 2016. The IIHS researchers compared claims in states that had recently legalized marijuana (Colorado, Washington and Oregon) with claims in similar neighboring states that hadn't.
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Donlen announces that their DriverPoint Telematics solution is now integrated with OnStar directly. Donlen is the first fleet management company to offer this integrated solution to customers to improve program efficiency.
With the integration, the DriverPoint system will receive driver behavior and location information as well as vehicle diagnostics data directly from the vehicle, allowing fleet professionals to take full advantage of DriverPoint and its integration within our FleetWeb platform without the need for an OBD-II device.
Bluetooth? Meh. In-car WiFi? Ancient history. Automakers are just starting to roll out a new wireless technology that could offer motorists a number of advantages.
It's known as Near Field Communications, or NFC for short, and if you have a relatively recent smartphone you might already know some of its uses. Among other things, NFC is the system used by Apple for its iPhone payment system.
Automakers have been talking about adding the technology for a number of years.
In just two weeks, Tesla will start delivery of the Model 3, its long-awaited $35,000 sedan.
After handing over the first 30 sets of keys, Elon Musk will hustle back to the factory, where he hopes to build 20,000 more of the "affordable" electric cars by the end of 2017. Then production really accelerates: Musk has pledged to build 500,000 cars in 2018, more than double the total number of vehicles that Tesla has sold, to date.
Even if Tesla can deliver all those cars, cashing checks is but a tiny part of building an automotive business.