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Torts/Personal Injury

Aug. 31, 2026

The driver is gone. The duty is not.

California negligence law already knows how to allocate responsibility when technology replaces the person behind the wheel.

K. Chike Odiwe

Civil Rights Attorney
The Law Offices of Kenneth C. Odiwe, PC

2880 Zanker Road, Ste 203
San Jose , CA 95134

Fax: (669) 315-4431

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The driver is gone. The duty is not.
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Negligence law knows what to do when a driver sees an ambulance and fails to yield. The harder case arrives when the vehicle encounters the ambulance, makes the wrong decision and no one sits behind the wheel.

That problem no longer belongs to the distant future. Driverless vehicles already navigate California streets alongside police cars, fire engines, ambulances, pedestrians and human drivers. They encounter road closures, emergency scenes and circu...

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