If you’re in a car accident with an Uber or Lyft driver, and the ridesharing driver was at fault, your legal options vary. When the driver is picking up or transporting a passenger, Uber and Lyft provide $1 million in liability coverage. When they are logged into the app without a passenger, the ridesharing companies…
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A stressful life event that results in injury, like a car accident or a concussion, certainly has a negative impact on our wellbeing when it occurs. But research published in the journal Anxiety Stress Coping indicates that how we think about that event can continue to affect our health years later. In this journal article,…
Google has been experimenting with driverless cars for several years now, releasing the vehicles onto streets in cities as small as Ann Arbor, Michigan and as large as Los Angeles, California. At the recent Detroit Auto Show, Google also spotlighted a minivan with self-driving sensors and vision systems. Waymo, the autonomous car company Google spun…
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California had long been at the forefront of attempts to curb distracted driving accidents by limiting how drivers can use their phones behind the wheel. For instance, California was among the first states to ban handheld cell phone use and texting while driving. Now, the state has gone one step further: they’ve made it a…
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The category “large trucks” is, well, a large one. It includes every truck from a 10,000-pound box truck for local deliveries to an 80,000-pound, thirteen-foot-tall tractor-trailer. One thing all these trucks have in common is their ability to outweigh a passenger vehicle by several tons. When a car, pickup, or minivan collides with a large…
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Whenever you get in your car, chances are that you’ll share a stretch of road with a tractor-trailer or other large trucks. These trucks account for a significant number of the vehicle miles driven each year – and their large size, weight, and other factors make them a big danger in an accident. To drive…
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A few years ago outside of Houston on I-10 one of most severe documented auto accidents in Texas history occurred. Heavy fog covered the highway on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. In the accident, as many as 150 vehicles piled up, two were fatally wounded and 100 more were injured. Multi-car pileups are…
