Two All-Electric Cars Fall Short of Earning an IIHS Safety Award
Two all-electric vehicles fall short of meeting the Institute's awards criteria, but consumers who want to minimize gas consumption while also prioritizing safety can choose from two plug-in hybrids that earn the 2017 Top Safety Pick award.
The two recently evaluated 2017 all-electric models are the Tesla Model S and the BMW i3. The plug-in hybrid models are the Chevrolet Volt, whose award was announced in December, and the Toyota Prius Prime.
"There's no reason the most efficient vehicles can't also be among the safest," says David Zuby, IIHS executive vice president and chief research officer.
Element Announces Two Additions to Southeast Region Commercial Team
Element Fleet Management today announced two additions to its Southeast Region Commercial Team.
Brian Jacob joins Element as VP of the Customer Success Team. He’ll manage the mid-market portfolio of accounts in the region with a focus on revenue growth and retention.
Kelley Finke joins as VP, Sales. Finke previously spent 14 years with GE Fleet (acquired by Element in 2015), where she was responsible for mid-market and national account sales and customer retention.
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety Releases 2017 Roadmap Report of State Highway Safety Laws
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) released the 2017 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws. The 14th annual report rates all 50 states and the District of Columbia (DC) on adoption of 15 basic traffic safety laws.
This "report card" exposes deadly gaps in these essential laws and should serve as both a wake-up call and call to action for state legislatures.
The Numbers Don’t Lie: Self-Driving Cars Are Getting Good
It’s report card time for the automakers and Silicon Valley denizens studying the tricky problem of making cars drive themselves, and everyone is passing.
The California DMV just released its annual slate of “disengagement reports,” documents provided by the 11 companies that received state permits to test autonomous vehicles by the end of 2015.
The results, summarized below, reveal how often humans had to wrest control away from the computer, and why (sort of).
The Car Hackers of Fremont
Robert Barrett and Jack Dunham hack cars for a living.
In their garage on the Fremont campus of Underwriters Laboratories, they probe for weaknesses that criminals might exploit to tamper with or take control of today’s Web-connected cars.
It’s not an academic pursuit.
Hackers years ago demonstrated an ability to commandeer, remotely, a vehicle’s transmission and steering, although the known cases have not been random, broad-based attacks but instead were aimed at specific vulnerabilities in specific cars.
