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Semi-truck Collides with Unattended Vehicle, Catches Fire, Falls from Loop 410 Overpass
Northbound Loop 410 is down to one lane this evening as road crews attempt to clear the scene of a devastating trucking accident. At around 2:00 on Monday afternoon, an 18-wheeler collided with an unattended Chevy truck that had been resting on the shoulder. The crash caused the semi-truck to catch fire and then demolish…
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Wearable Technology and Personal Injury Cases: Evidence and Ethics
Wearable technology has gone from calculator watch to Apple Watch in the last few decades. Now we can tweet from our T-shirts, view the world through Google Glass, and keep track of our health and habits second by second with a Fitbit – and these wearable tech trends are only predicted to continue growing and…
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Your IV Amendment Rights During a Traffic Stop
With the increasingly widespread availability and ownership of personal recording devices such as dash cams, there seems to be a corresponding increase in reports of police misconduct, profiling, and even outright violence occurring during what seem to be routine traffic stops. We’ve written before about how technology can help get the facts straight in a…
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“Congress Needs to Toughen Its Oversight of Trucking, Not Loosen It”—The New York Times
Close Your Eyes. Walk Backwards. Howard Abramson of The New York Times recently penned a scathing op-ed of Congress’ refusal to enact and enforce safety regulations on the trucking industry in the United States. Abramson addressed the hypocrisy at work in Washington when he wrote, “And still Congress continues to do the trucking industry’s bidding…
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5 MORE Myths about the Brain – Debunked
The amount of misinformation regarding the human brain that exists on the Internet is overwhelming; but given how little we actually know about this complex organ, it’s not that surprising. Impressionable, though well intentioned, individuals overhear a cool faux-factoid, and before you know it, millions of armchair neuroscientists are giving misinformed lectures on the wonders…
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Robo-Trucks: The Pros and Cons of Self-Driving Commercial Trucks
It appears that self-driving cars are the future for civilian motorists and that the act of driving as we know it may soon be obsolete. For commercial freight-hauling semi-trucks, that future is now. The Inspiration While engineers estimate that widespread usage of self-driving trucks is at least a decade away, functioning prototypes are already being…
