Trade group points to litigation and glass-claim fraud as the cost drivers still to be addressed. A new state law folds ADAS calibration disclosures and an assignment-of-benefits ban into Louisiana’s unfair trade practices statute. Private passenger auto insurance produced the sharpest turnaround in a Louisiana property/casualty market that posted its first broad rate relief of […]
Plasnomic, Industry Partners Launch Textured Plastic Parts Repair Pilot
Plasnomic announced June 30 that it and a group of supplier partners — 3M, 4Plastic, Mirka, PPG, Polyvance and SEM — will launch a pilot program to validate repair methods for textured plastic parts, one of the more frequently replaced and increasingly costly categories of components on modern collision claims. More than 95% of textured […]
SCRS Forms ADAS Repair Division, Names Five-Member Governing Council
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists has established an ADAS Repair Division and named an inaugural five-member Governing Council, creating a dedicated platform for the diagnostics, calibration and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) repair professionals who have emerged as a distinct specialty within collision repair across North America. As ADAS content has spread across the […]
Kinetic Enters Arizona with Two Phoenix ADAS Hubs, Opens First Los Angeles-Area Location
Kinetic, which operates a network of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) calibration and diagnostics hubs, has opened three new facilities — two in Phoenix and one in Inglewood, California — expanding its third-party calibration network to 11 locations across four states. The Phoenix openings mark the company’s entry into Arizona. The hubs provide appraisal, diagnostics, programming […]
Lucid Begins Hands-Free Highway Driving Rollout for Gravity SUV
Lucid Group Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID) has begun deploying an over-the-air software update for its Gravity SUV that adds hands-free highway driving in North America, the centerpiece of a broader release that also revises the electric SUV’s navigation, headlights and charging functions. The hands-free capability runs through DreamDrive 2 Pro, an optional driver-assistance package that supports […]
Rhode Island Proposes Adding ADAS to Required Auto Body Technician Certifications
Public comment period open through June 25. Rhode Island regulators have proposed amending the state’s Motor Vehicle Body and Salvage Vehicle Repair regulation to make Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) a required category of technician certification for licensed collision repair facilities, opening a public comment period that runs through June 25, 2026. The amendment to […]
Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center Launches 10 Projects Spanning Crash Prevention, Driver Behavior and Injury Science
Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center announced 10 new safety research projects June 2, partnering with seven universities and private-sector organizations to study how vehicles can better prevent crashes, how driver behavior shapes risk and how the human body absorbs the force of a collision. The detection, warning and driver-assistance work Toyota is funding targets the […]
Calibrations and Parts Inflation Drive Collision Claim Complexity
Annual Enlyte report examines auto claim trends. Enlyte released its 2026 Envision Trends Report on June 2, and for collision repairers and auto physical damage claims professionals the most relevant section is an analysis from Mitchell’s Ryan Mandell that documents how ADAS calibrations, tariff-driven parts inflation and artificial intelligence are reshaping how collision claims are […]
CIECA June 18 Webinar to Examine ADAS Calibration Issues and Standards
The Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association (CIECA) will host a free webinar on advanced driver assistance systems calibration June 18 at 2 p.m. (EDT). The one-hour session, “ADAS Calibration Issues, Challenges and Opportunities,” will feature Joel Adcock, director of strategic partnerships at Revv; Dan Dutra, partner and board member at PACE-ADAS and senior vice president […]
Rivian Approves Hunter’s ADAS Alignment and Calibration System
Rivian has approved Hunter Engineering’s Ultimate ADAS alignment and calibration system for use across its full vehicle lineup, the company announced May 12. The approval makes Rivian the ninth original equipment manufacturer to endorse the system and the first all-electric automaker on Hunter’s approval list. For collision repairers and Rivian’s service network, the endorsement positions […]
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