Crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars, according to a new report out of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute that was commissioned by self-driving car developer Google. While self-driving cars have a rate … Source: Claims Journal

U.S. safety regulators have determined that only Fiat Chrysler radios have a security flaw that allowed friendly hackers to take control of a Jeep last year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in documents posted online Saturday that it’s … Source: Claims Journal

While South Carolina legislators pledge to address road funding and flood relief over the next six months, there’s no consensus on what they’ll do. A $1.3 billion windfall makes a compromise even harder. And in a year when every House … Source: Claims Journal

A county official says an elevation change on a Day County highway is partly responsible for the high accident rate along that stretch. Day County Emergency Management director Wes Williams calls the area going east from Andover to a curve … Source: Claims Journal

The government is falling short in ensuring airline pilots keep up their flying skills and get full training on how to monitor sophisticated automated control systems in cockpits, according to the Transportation Department’s internal watchdog. Most airline flying today is … Source: Claims Journal

Laura Gideon and her family endured the sickening stench from an out-of-control natural gas leak for about a month before they could no longer tolerate the nausea, headaches and nosebleeds. After she went to the emergency room in November vomiting … Source: Claims Journal

As he drank coffee at his job site in the mornings, demolition subcontractor Sean Benschop often talked with Borbor Davis, who worked at the adjacent Salvation Army in downtown Philadelphia. The men, both immigrants, asked where the other was from. … Source: Claims Journal

In the dead of winter, the dune wars are heating up at the Jersey shore. More oceanfront homeowners are going to court to try to block protective sand dunes from being built near their homes, on land they currently own. … Source: Claims Journal

A new rule in Washington state created by the Washington State Human Rights Commission requires buildings open to the public to allow transgender people to use restrooms and locker rooms of the gender they identify with, officials said Tuesday. The … Source: Claims Journal

Last year was the second hottest on record in the contiguous United States, and included 10 major weather and climate events, such as droughts and storms, that each led to over $1 billion in damages, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric … Source: Claims Journal