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Self-Driving Cars Are Already on Our Roads
March 3, 2018
Self-driving cars are starting to hit the roads in Texas, and their numbers will only increase. While many people argue that autonomous vehicles will improve road safety, they will not eliminate car accidents. In fact, when a self-driving car accident occurs, you might face complicated insurance claims and a higher likelihood of litigation. Below, we explain how to protect yourself after a self-driving car accident. While it seemed unlikely a decade ago, self-driving cars are now a reality....
March 3, 2018
Self-driving cars are starting to hit the roads in Texas, and their numbers will only increase. While many people argue that autonomous vehicles will improve road safety, they will not eliminate car accidents. In fact, when a self-driving car accident occurs, you might face complicated insurance claims and a higher likelihood of litigation. Below, we explain how to protect yourself after a self-driving car accident. While it seemed unlikely a decade ago, self-driving cars are now a reality....
Self-Driving Cars Will Eliminate Things You Love and Hate
March 1, 2018
Electric cars, robo taxis and self-driving trucks are coming to change the society we live in—possibly sooner than you think. Limited tests of driverless cars are already happening today and they’ll be in use everywhere within six years, according to Carlos Ghosn, CEO of the Renault Nissan Alliance. A change on that scale would reach far beyond the automotive industry to upend businesses, transform our daily lifestyles and reshape cities. Insurance Premiums Today more than 90 percent of road...
March 1, 2018
Electric cars, robo taxis and self-driving trucks are coming to change the society we live in—possibly sooner than you think. Limited tests of driverless cars are already happening today and they’ll be in use everywhere within six years, according to Carlos Ghosn, CEO of the Renault Nissan Alliance. A change on that scale would reach far beyond the automotive industry to upend businesses, transform our daily lifestyles and reshape cities. Insurance Premiums Today more than 90 percent of road...
Uber Settles Claims for $245M that it Stole Google’s Trade Secrets
February 26, 2018
Money.CNN reported that Google’s Waymo (Google’s self-driving car program) sued Uber for theft of trade secrets, but during the middle of trial “accepted a settlement offer from Uber, which agreed to a deal that includes 0.34% of Uber’s equity at a $72 billion valuation, which works out to about $245 million.” The February 9, 2018 article entitled “Uber and Waymo settle trade secrets lawsuit” settled even though “Waymo had initially asked for maximum damages of $1.8 billion after: The...
February 26, 2018
Money.CNN reported that Google’s Waymo (Google’s self-driving car program) sued Uber for theft of trade secrets, but during the middle of trial “accepted a settlement offer from Uber, which agreed to a deal that includes 0.34% of Uber’s equity at a $72 billion valuation, which works out to about $245 million.” The February 9, 2018 article entitled “Uber and Waymo settle trade secrets lawsuit” settled even though “Waymo had initially asked for maximum damages of $1.8 billion after: The...
Here Come the Quantum Computers
February 24, 2018
If you thought super-computers like Watson were revolutionizing the workplace (and law practice in particular), you ain't seen nothing yet. Read this short piece from today's New York Times on "quantum computers" and their predicted impact on both education and the workplace. There's also a video below that explains quantum computing for the uninitiated. But first, here's a salient quote from the NYT article: [IBM’s C.E.O. Ginni Rometty says]: “Every job will require some...
February 24, 2018
If you thought super-computers like Watson were revolutionizing the workplace (and law practice in particular), you ain't seen nothing yet. Read this short piece from today's New York Times on "quantum computers" and their predicted impact on both education and the workplace. There's also a video below that explains quantum computing for the uninitiated. But first, here's a salient quote from the NYT article: [IBM’s C.E.O. Ginni Rometty says]: “Every job will require some...
Uber Nearing Self-Driving Cars Without Human Backup Driver
February 17, 2018
Uber plans to carry passengers in autonomous vehicles without human backup drivers in about the same time frame as competitors, which expect to be on the road at the latest sometime next year, the service’s autonomous vehicle chief said Wednesday. Advanced Technology Group leader Eric Meyhofer wouldn’t give a specific start date but he said Uber won’t deploy the driverless cars without human backups unless they are proved safe. “Once we can check that box, which we call passing the robot...
February 17, 2018
Uber plans to carry passengers in autonomous vehicles without human backup drivers in about the same time frame as competitors, which expect to be on the road at the latest sometime next year, the service’s autonomous vehicle chief said Wednesday. Advanced Technology Group leader Eric Meyhofer wouldn’t give a specific start date but he said Uber won’t deploy the driverless cars without human backups unless they are proved safe. “Once we can check that box, which we call passing the robot...
U.S. Drivers Begin to Warm up to Riding in Self-Driving Cars
February 10, 2018
American drivers are slowly warming up to the idea of relinquishing the wheel to a robot. Although 63 percent of U.S. drivers say they’d be afraid to ride in a fully self-driving car, that’s down substantially from the 78 percent who were fearful a year ago, according to a survey released Wednesday by the American Automobile Association. Younger drivers are the most open to the new technology, with less than half of millennials concerned about going driverless, the study shows. Almost three-quarters...
February 10, 2018
American drivers are slowly warming up to the idea of relinquishing the wheel to a robot. Although 63 percent of U.S. drivers say they’d be afraid to ride in a fully self-driving car, that’s down substantially from the 78 percent who were fearful a year ago, according to a survey released Wednesday by the American Automobile Association. Younger drivers are the most open to the new technology, with less than half of millennials concerned about going driverless, the study shows. Almost three-quarters...
EmpowerLegal Launches Litigation Suite, a Powerful Series of Streamable Video Tutorials Which Effectively Prepare Clients for Testimony
January 27, 2018
EmpowerLegal, Inc. launches its powerful Litigation Suite, a series of streamable video tutorials which help litigation attorneys and their clients effectively prepare for major legal events including mediations, depositions and trials. Created and narrated by Alan S. Fanger, an award-winning litigation attorney with 30+ years of experience, EmpowerLegal video tutorials provide realistic, professionally-portrayed depictions of depositions, mediations and trials. The videos demystify intimidating...
January 27, 2018
EmpowerLegal, Inc. launches its powerful Litigation Suite, a series of streamable video tutorials which help litigation attorneys and their clients effectively prepare for major legal events including mediations, depositions and trials. Created and narrated by Alan S. Fanger, an award-winning litigation attorney with 30+ years of experience, EmpowerLegal video tutorials provide realistic, professionally-portrayed depictions of depositions, mediations and trials. The videos demystify intimidating...
Gifford on the Role of Technology in Changing Tort Law
January 25, 2018
Don Gifford has posted to SSRN Technological Triggers to Tort Revolutions: Steam Locomotives, Autonomous Vehicles, and Accident Compensation. The abstract provides: Waves of technological change explain the most important transformations of American tort law. In this Article, I begin by examining historical instances of this linkage. Following the Industrial Revolution, for example, machines, no longer humans and animals, powered production. With greater force, locomotives and other machines...
January 25, 2018
Don Gifford has posted to SSRN Technological Triggers to Tort Revolutions: Steam Locomotives, Autonomous Vehicles, and Accident Compensation. The abstract provides: Waves of technological change explain the most important transformations of American tort law. In this Article, I begin by examining historical instances of this linkage. Following the Industrial Revolution, for example, machines, no longer humans and animals, powered production. With greater force, locomotives and other machines...
How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Manipulate Our Emotions
January 20, 2018
The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these...
January 20, 2018
The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these...
How Robots May Make Radiologists’ Jobs Easier, Not Redundant
January 6, 2018
Artificial intelligence programs that diagnose disease by analyzing images still require human judgment Earlier this month a team of computer scientists at Stanford University announced that their artificial intelligence program had diagnosed pneumonia on chest X-rays more accurately than human radiologists. “Should radiologists be worried about their jobs?” one of the scientists, Andrew Ng,tweeted. Probably not. In fact, they ought to be relieved: AI is more likely to make...
January 6, 2018
Artificial intelligence programs that diagnose disease by analyzing images still require human judgment Earlier this month a team of computer scientists at Stanford University announced that their artificial intelligence program had diagnosed pneumonia on chest X-rays more accurately than human radiologists. “Should radiologists be worried about their jobs?” one of the scientists, Andrew Ng,tweeted. Probably not. In fact, they ought to be relieved: AI is more likely to make...
