Webinar Rescheduled: Enhanced Violation Management Techniques to Identify High-Risk Drivers
NAFA Webinar: Enhanced Violation Management Techniques to Identify High-Risk Drivers, originally scheduled for Wednesday, December 10th, has been rescheduled for Thursday, January 22, 2015, at 12:00pm EST.
Addressing unsafe driving behavior is a top priority for most fleets - if an unsafe driver causes an accident, the fleet will be held liable. Fleets often look to a driver's motor vehicle record (MVR) to determine if that driver has a safe driving history.
Motorists Like Concept but Still Wary of Autonomous Vehicles
The vast majority of American motorists are aware that a new generation of autonomous vehicles will soon take to the highways. While they like the idea of being able to lay back and relax, less than one in three drivers say they actually would want to own a self-driving car.
“Consumers are divided on autonomous driving, just as they are on many other issues facing society,” explained George Peterson, president of AutoPacific. “For some, this technology can’t come soon enough. Others appear to dread it.”
Holman Automotive and ARI Raise Nearly $10,000 in Support of Several Charitable Organizations
Approximately 200 individuals walk more than 700 miles during five charity events throughout the fall
Holman Automotive Group and ARI raised nearly $10,000 through donations and participation in a variety of fundraising walks during October and November in support of several charitable initiatives. Together, approximately 200 Holman Automotive and ARI employees along with their family and friends walked more than 700 miles in support of these tremendously worthy causes.
Chevin: Bad Driving Can Cost You!
The best drivers can reduce total operating costs by more than 12% but the worst drivers can easily drive up costs by more than 13%.
The impact of good and bad driving can mean a 25% variance on whole life vehicle costs, says Chevin Fleet Solutions.
The company says that according to figures compiled from its customer base, the best drivers can reduce total operating costs by more than 12% but the worst drivers can easily drive up costs by more than 13%.
Senior Vice President of North American Sales, Ron Katz, said: “There’s a growing awareness among fleets about the level of impact that driver behavior can have on overall operating costs and these figures underline their concern.
Driverless Cars Within Two Years? Not a Chance, says Volvo
Launching Volvo's Vision 2020 project, head of R&D Peter Mertens had a few choice words for self-driving automobiles. Actually he had one choice word on the idea that there will be self-driving cars on roads within two years: "Bull**it".
In response to a picture of a woman reading a newspaper while her car drove her to her destination, he said: "If you look at the picture of having a person sitting behind a steering wheel, and doing emails and reading whatever, that kind of stuff is not what we want to see in a car.
