According to a report on the BBC thousands of Volkswagen owners in the UK are seeking compensation from the carmaker following its emissions scandal. Lawyers have reportedly claimed 10,000 owners had already expressed an interest in suing VW with estimates that owners could get ‘several thousand’ pounds in compensation. Lawyers, headed by the firm Harcus [...]

Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer, has told US estimators that it will pay for pre- and post-repair scans on all vehicles dating back to 1990. According to repairerdrivennews Chubb has contacted its bodyshop partners stating that ‘Chubb has decided that we are going to allow for pre and post scans [...]

Nissan has announced new technologies and partnerships it hopes will take it towards its target of zero emissions and zero fatalities. In his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nissan chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn unveiled the Nissan Intelligent Mobility blueprint, which included five key announcements. The first was to accelerate [...]

Audi has partnered with NVIDIA to unveil a concept car that is able to learn from its human driver. The Audi Q7 features deep neural networks (similar to the human brain) designed specifically for autonomous driving and traffic signal recognition. By observing how a human driver reacts to certain signals such as red lights, it [...]

Japanese insurance firm, Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is set to make 34 employees redundant and replace them with IBM’s Watson Explorer artificial intelligence. Reports claim the insurer believes it will increase productivity by 30% and see a return on its investment in less than two years. The firm said it would save about £1m a [...]