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2024 AAA Car Guide – EVs Reign Supreme

April 11, 2024 Corporate Information, Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips

AAA awards the 2023 All Electric Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4MATIC SUV with the overall top score for the 2024 Car Guide. This year, all category winners are either electric, plug-in electric hybrids or hybrids. Additionally, the SUV category was divided into...

New Technology Provides Hawaii Drivers With In-Vehicle Alerts As They Approach Stranded Motorists, Working Tow Operators

March 05, 2024 Automotive

AAA Hawaii and HAAS Alert, an industry leader in mobility safety solutions, are rolling out new technology that can automatically send alerts to drivers in Hawaii to slow down and move over when they are approaching a stranded motorist on the side of the...

7.3 Million In Pacific States Will Travel For Memorial Day, More Than Pre-Pandemic

May 15, 2023 Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips, Travel

AAA Hawaii projects 7.3 million people in the states of Hawaii, Alaska, California, Washington and Oregon will travel 50 miles or more away from home this Memorial Day weekend, an 8.4% increase from last year and more than 1 percent higher than in 2019,...

Ready To Plug In? Confidently Shop For A Used Electric Vehicle With AAA

February 02, 2023 Corporate Information, Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips

AAA is releasing its new Used EV Buyer's Guide that includes basic information on electric vehicles (EVs) like ownership costs, details to consider before purchasing, and guidance for those who want an EV but need more affordable options. Last year’s AAA...

2022 AAA Car Guide – Going High-Tech Often Means Going Electric

May 05, 2022 Corporate Information, Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips

New vehicle shoppers primarily want two things in their next ride – better fuel efficiency and more driver assist safety features. According to AAA, nearly 80% of drivers want automakers to focus on improving fuel economy. And 76% want active driving...

Face It: Only One Type of Driver Monitoring System Works, But It’s Not Foolproof

February 01, 2022 Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips, Transportation and Traffic Safety

Vehicle systems designed to prevent driver misuse of automated driving features in “semi-autonomous” cars are most effective when they directly monitor the driver’s face and eye positions, according to newly released AAA Automotive research. AAA researchers assessed both direct (driver-facing camera) and indirect (steering wheel sensor) systems and determined that direct systems detected driver inattention an average of 50 seconds earlier than the indirect systems.

AAA Hawaii Tips For Driving In Heavy Rain

December 07, 2021 Automotive, Transportation and Traffic Safety

As the islands brace for more rainfall today, AAA Hawaii reminds drivers about the hazards they may encounter on the roads. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has found that wet weather factors into nearly a million crashes annually across the U.S....

AAA: Today’s Vehicle Technology Must Improve Before Public Trusts Self-Driving Vehicles

February 25, 2021 Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips

Automakers may already hold the key to improving public acceptance of self-driving cars: fine-tuning existing vehicle technology. AAA’s annual automated vehicle survey finds that only 22% of people feel manufacturers should focus on developing...

AAA Hawaii: Fewer People Traveling This Thanksgiving

November 12, 2020 Automotive, Travel

The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to push down the number of Pacific state residents traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday by at least 11 percent compared to last year, according to AAA Hawaii. That’s the largest year-over-year decline since the 2008...

AAA Hawaii: New Research Shows Active Driving Assistance Systems Do Less To Assist Drivers And More To Interfere

August 06, 2020 Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips

AAA automotive researchers found that over the course of 4,000 miles of real-world driving, vehicles equipped with active driving assistance systems experienced some type of issue every 8 miles, on average. Researchers noted instances of trouble with the...

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