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...Finally, said Zeng, there were still safety issues, as lithium would react with moisture in the air if a battery broke open during a car accident....
...“There is still a lot of work to be done as if you want to hold somebody culpable for an accident, you cannot 100 per cent guarantee that the explanations justify the underlying model,” said Daniel Omeiza...
...Association of British Insurers, said part of the reason that the rise in prices looked “so significant is because it is coming off the back of the pandemic”, when the cost of insurance fell as miles driven, and accidents...
...Two workers have died in separate accidents at Northvolt’s battery gigafactory in northern Sweden, casting a shadow over Europe’s leading start-up in the sector....
...The insurance claim stemming from the accident could reach $1bn-$3bn, Barclays analysts estimated on Wednesday....
...The report released on Thursday also found Cruise employees had not been aware that the pedestrian was dragged when the company first issued a press statement about the accident....
...A third issue raised by the accident concerns regulation....
...The DMV in October accused Cruise of misrepresenting details about the accident, in which a female pedestrian was thrown by another vehicle into the path of one of Cruise’s self-driving cars and then dragged...
...It will also expand a safety investigation following an accident in San Francisco in which a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle and dragged along the road....
...Geely’s ownership of Volvo has seen a reinvention of the brand and allowed it to invest in electric vehicles and new safety technology such as driver-monitoring systems that it says will help slash accidents...
...Northvolt Ett, located just below the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden, first started producing batteries in late 2021 but has been hit by a series of delays and accidents, complicating production....
...The carmaker issued another widespread software fix in December to improve safeguards in its Autopilot driver-assistance system, after an NHTSA investigation into a series of fatal accidents....
...Beijing is developing nationwide rules to clarify which companies will be liable in the case of an accident....
...It added that the accident would be included in future training to help its cars decide whether to pull over or stay in place....
...General Motors scaled back plans for its self-driving Cruise unit last year following an accident while testing on public roads, while Ford pulled out of the technology altogether to focus on driver-assistance...
...Daihatsu said it was not aware of any accidents caused by the safety issues, which also affected models supplied to Mazda and Subaru....
...Tesla will fix software for more than 2mn cars to improve safeguards in its Autopilot driver-assistance system after an investigation by US safety regulators following a series of fatal accidents....
...That followed an accident this month in San Francisco in which a pedestrian was dragged 20ft underneath a Cruise vehicle....
...(Admittedly this is a very low bar, given that 42,000 people were killed in US car accidents last year)....
...EVs were facing higher incidents of accidents and damage that were more costly to repair than expected....
...Japan’s ageing population has resulted in an increase in accidents that involve seniors and so-called pedal misapplication....
...The “Inside Business” column by Richard Waters (“Cruise’s driverless-car accident underlines risks of deep learning”, Opinion, November 10) suggests the problems autonomous vehicles have with artificial...
...The move by the devolved Labour administration in Cardiff is part of a UK-wide trend for local councils to try to reduce road accidents, as well as emissions, by getting us to slow down in built up areas...
...To date, driverless car accidents have been rare, and in most reported accidents it is a human driver that is at fault....
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