Travelers Institute Teams Up With Carnegie Mellon University and RAND Corporation to Host Automated Vehicle Symposium
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PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 21, 2019-- The Travelers Institute, the public policy division of The Travelers Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TRV ), will host a symposium today at Carnegie Mellon University. The program, `Transforming the Driving Experience: Automated Vehicle Technologies and Human Attention,` will bring together experts to address the safety, regulatory and insurance implications of advanced technologies that are on the road today. In a recent survey of 500 Pittsburgh-area residents, Travelers found that only 30% of people feel comfortable with semiautonomous vehicles operating on the road and only 31% feel comfortable riding in a vehicle equipped with this technology. In...