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Ny Personal Injury Blog
Will Google self-driving car put a dent in personal-injury lawsuits?
Google, which just announced a “fully functional” prototype of its self-driving car, is looking for auto industry partners to bring the technology to market within the next five years.
Watching those developments, legal blogger Eric Turkewitz, a personal injury lawyer with the Turkewitz Law Firm in New York, wonders what a future of Google cars will mean for his industry. Writes Mr. Turkewitz:
The issue of lawsuits regarding the cars will, I think, be vastly overwhelmed by a huge reduction in collisions that result from the most common forms of human error. Each year about 30,000 people will die in the U.S. from car crashes, and about two million are injured, and that is after considering a significant drop in fatalities from safer cars and seat belts over the prior decades….
And what will those newfangled cars do? They will see the other cars/pedestrians and slow down or stop despite the driver being lost in thought elsewhere. Or drunk. Or asleep.
With human error crashes reduced by software that automatically stops or slows the car, the number of broken bodies and cars will be reduced. The number of deaths will be reduced. Your insurance premiums will be (theoretically) reduced.
And that meanest the need for my services as a personal injury attorney will be reduced.
For the time being, at least, personal injury lawyers don’t have that much to fret about.
WSJ’s Joseph B. White reported in August that regulators and insurance companies are reluctant to embrace even incremental steps that allow hands-free driving:
“Why buy an autonomous vehicle if you have to maintain control?” asks Adrian Lund, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, who predicts hands-free driving systems won’t be offered soon because of legal and insurance barriers. While some states allow professional drivers to experiment with autonomous controls, not one has issued a plan that allows everyday road warriors take their hands off the wheel for significant periods.
Federal safety regulators say they still need to do more research on the potential safety and benefits of autonomous technology.
