Table of Contents 1. What Is Happening with Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Insurance? Increasing Adoption: As of March 2025, more consumers in the United States are buying or experimenting with autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. Testing programs by major tech and automotive companies (e.g., Waymo, Cruise, Tesla) continue to grow, leading to new insurance products and regulations. … Read more
Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash Welcome back for the second part of the C-590/23 Pelham II hearing commentary. In part one (here), we covered the interpretation of pastiche. However, a very interesting topic arose in the Court’s pre-emptive questions, and during the oral questions: the interaction of “pastiche” with Article 17 CDSM Directive. This … Read more
Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash On 14 January 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) heard oral arguments in the much-anticipated case C-590/23 Pelham II, where the German Federal Court submitted a request for preliminary ruling on the interpretation of “pastiche”. The purpose was to ascertain whether a two-second sample from … Read more
The “race” On the Saturday of the race weekend, a demonstration of two A2RL vehicles raced around the circuit. The vehicles were moving quickly down the straight. The corners, though? We were told that they were still a bit tricky for the vehicles to navigate. Down in the pits, the team watched a bank of … Read more
