Apple confirms investment in autonomous cars
Apple has acknowledged for the first time that it is investing in self-driving car tech. In a letter to US transport regulators, Apple said it was “excited about the...
Opportunities and Challenges of Insurance Telematics
Professor Peter Handel, Professor of Signal Processing and Head of the Department of Signal Processing, Royal Institute of Technology KTH Some two decades after the initial ideas and trials of...
10 Takeaways from the Future of Insurance and InsureTech Connect Conference
You’ve probably heard. There is tremendous investor interest right now in technology-first insurance startups, or insurtech firms. The first InsureTech Connect Conference in Las Vegas in early October...
What is InsurTech, Origin and History in Financial Technology?
InsurTech is a fintech subsector that is growing fast, with the global InsurTech market expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 10% between 2016...
ALVINN, the self-driving car from 1989
Self driving cars may have become a reality very recently but the quest for making such cars has continued since decades. Details of one such self driving car...
Global automotive eCall market to grow at 30%
Technavio analysts forecast the global automotive eCall market to grow at a CAGR of almost 30% during the forecast 2016-2020, according to their latest report. According to a study...
Future trends in automotive telematics market
From country perspective, Asia Pacific automotive telematics market is segmented into India, China, Oceania, ASEAN, Japan and South Korea. Currently, China dominates the Asia Pacific automotive telematics market...
Campaign to help Australians understand the ‘connected car’
The Australian Automobile Association (AAA) has launched the My Car My Data campaign and website to help inform Australians of the emergence of ‘connected’ cars, and what the potential benefits...
Frost & Sullivan: Advancements in biometrics to transform the driving experience
Advancements in biometrics will radically transform the driving experience, health wellness and wellbeing (HWW), and security of vehicles by 2025. As one in three new passenger vehicles begin...
ATRI: Impact of autonomous vehicle on trucking industry
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released its report identifying potential impacts of autonomous vehicle technology on the trucking industry, which include significant safety and productivity benefits that...