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Transportation,
Law Practice,
Insurance

Apr. 24, 2018

The long road to autonomous vehicle adoption

Autonomous technology is far from perfected, but the end result will benefit generations who have yet to even be conceived.

Jonathan A. Michaels

Managing Partner
MLG Attorneys at Law

Phone: (949) 581-6900

Email: jmichaels@defectattorney.com

Whittier Coll SOL; CA

Jonathan specializes in representing clients in the automotive industry.

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The long road to autonomous vehicle adoption
A woman crosses Mill Avenue at its intersection with Curry Road in Tempe, Arizona, March 19. A pedestrian, Elaine Herzberg, was struck and killed by a self-driving Uber vehicle at the intersection a night earlier. (New York Times News Service)

Last month, two U.S. citizens lost their lives to autonomous vehicles: Elaine Herzberg, who was struck by a self-driving Uber in Tempe, Arizona and Walter Huang, whose autonomously driven Tesla Model X hit a freeway concrete divider in Mountain View, California. The two incidents ignited a fiery debate on the issue of autonomous vehicles, and their appropriateness for 2018 consumption.

The first autonomous fatality was in May 2016, w...

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