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By Kevin Smith, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS February 22, 2019 Organizations petition state to ban job, education criteria when setting auto insurance…
Feb 22, 2019By Lyle Adriano, INSURANCE BUSINESS February 22, 2019 https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/pressure-groups-try-to-get-insurance-commissioner-to-further-restrict-auto-premium-criteria-159758.aspx Various community groups in California have petitioned state insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara to…
Feb 22, 2019By Hannah Wiley, SACRAMENTO BEE – CAPITOL ALERT February 21, 2019 https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article226528255.html WORKER DISCRIMINATION A group of organizations is submitting a petition…
Feb 21, 2019Or should we turn the scofflaw company into a public agency? By Alastair Bland, EAST BAY EXPRESS February 20, 2019 https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/should-we-break-up-pgande/Content?oid=25029699&showFullText=true When…
Feb 20, 2019By Pete Bigelow, AUTOMOTIVE NEWS February 18, 2019 https://www.autonews.com/regulation-safety/self-driving-test-miles-zoom-california Even with automakers and tech companies sprouting projects across the country, California remains…
Feb 18, 2019By Priya Kantaria, THE VERDICT February 15, 2019 https://www.verdict.co.uk/self-driving-cars-have-miles-to-full-autonomy/ Companies such as Google’s Waymo are testing robot cars on Californian public roads,…
Feb 15, 2019Despite the hype surrounding self-driving cars, human intervention is consistently required for its functionality, according to Consumer Watchdog. By Macy Bayern, TECH…
Feb 15, 2019It will always be essential for people to be in control not only of autonomous vehicles, but of all forms of artificial…
Feb 14, 2019The civil rights groups aim to fix issues like discriminative advertising, voter suppression and targeted misinformation. By Marrian Zhou, CNET February 13,…
Feb 13, 2019California disengagement reports give several reasons for when safety drivers needed to take over. By Keith Shaw, ROBOTICS BUSINESS REVIEW February 13,…
Feb 13, 2019By Donna Horowitz, THE DEAL PIPELINE February 9, 2019 A federal judge has given final approval to a Transamerica Life Insurance Co.…
Feb 9, 2019By Dan Bacher, COACHELLA VALLEY INDEPENDENT February 7, 2019 https://cvindependent.com/index.php/en-US/news/politics/item/5044-a-consequence-of-the-nonbinary-option-insurance-companies-surprised-by-a-state-regulation-prohibiting-them-from-using-gender-in-auto-coverage-ratings In a little-noticed side impact of California’s 2018 law granting drivers the…
Feb 7, 2019By Staff Reporters, PYMNTS.COM February 6, 2019 Instacart Faces Lawsuit Over Shoppers’ Tips Instacart, the delivery on demand service, is facing a…
Feb 6, 2019PG&E spent almost $10 million on lobbying California officials in 2018, surpassing even the Western States Petroleum Association in lobbying spending in…
Feb 4, 2019“For a consumer to somehow glean that this tip is in fact just subsidizing what the company would have paid on the…
Feb 4, 2019Watchdogs alarmed by $360 million that companies spent to guard their interests By Patrick McGreevy, LOS ANGELES TIMES February 3, 2019 https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-cal-record-california-lobbying-spending-20190201-story.html…
Feb 3, 2019By Keith Laing, THE DETROIT NEWS January 31, 2019 https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2019/02/01/shutdown-put-drivers-risk-safety-groups-say/2713121002/ Washington — The five-week partial government shutdown hobbled the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s ability…
Jan 31, 2019State political leaders have no plans to help once-influential utility; ‘The landscape has really shifted’ By Alejandro Lazo, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL…
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