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If a Car Rear Ends You, but Nobody's Driving, Will a PI Lawyer Take Your Case?

By Eric Lipman

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Yeah, it's a bit of a stretch from the old "If a tree falls in the forest ..." bit, but it's the question being posed by attorney Paul Napoli on the New York Injury Board blog. Napoli's query was sparked by an article in Saturday's New York Times revealing that Google -- who else? -- has been testing self-driving cars in California traffic. Google, of course, hasn't been sending the cars out completely unmanned. The 7 cars that have logged a cumulative 140,000 miles are being put through their paces with someone behind the wheel and an engineer in the passenger seat. But to hear the reporter's take on it, a "driver" might really have been superfluous on the half-hour test run he observed: Christopher Urmson, a Carnegie Mellon University robotics scientist, was behind the wheel but not using it. To gain control of the car he has to do one of three things: hit a red button near his right hand, touch the brake or turn the steering wheel. He did so twice, once when a bicyclist ran a red light and again when a car in front stopped and began to back into a parking space. But the...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on October 11, 2010 (boomark / email).