Archive for category: Accidents

PARIS, Texas. According to U.S. News & World Report, a Texas law passed last September gives autonomous vehicle companies the right to test their vehicles on the state’s roads. The companies are not required to have a safety driver inside the vehicle. Texas passed these laws to make the state friendlier to economic growth and to draw driverless vehicle companies to the state. Yet, the recent driverless car fatality in Arizona has left many people worried about whether the vehicles are safe. New information about the accident has now come to light.

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TEXAS. Border Patrol recently made the news recently for killing a woman that agents claim crossed the border illegally.

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TYLER and LONGVIEW, Texas. If you’re moving and planning to drive your moving truck yourself, it is important to consider what steps you’ll take to keep yourself safe. Driving a moving truck is a little different than driving a passenger vehicle. Unlike a passenger vehicle, the sheer size and weight of the moving truck can change everything about driving: from your turning radius to the time you’ll need to stop. So, how can you be safe while driving a moving truck during your next move? Here are some tips:

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TEXAS. There are different types of artificial intelligence. There is the kind of artificial intelligence that allows you to perform a successful Google search, and that allows self-driving car companies to test their vehicles on roads, with relative success. AI is also responsible for other innovations. AI can now help doctors diagnose cancer and it can help investment companies pick the right stocks. Yet, there is another type of AI, one that has yet to be invented, and one that has many tech experts alarmed. This type of AI is known as artificial general intelligence and for many tech leaders, it is of grave concern. According to the New Yorker, Stephen Hawking warned that artificial general intelligence could result in the “end of the human race.”

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TYLER and LONGVIEW, Texas. Car accidents, drug overdoses, and slip and fall accidents are all major causes of injury. Every year, the Centers for Disease Control releases a chart outlining the major causes of accidental death, braking down the causes by age. In 2016, for example, unintentional injury was the leading cause of death for individuals between age 1 and 44. Among people aged 10 to 44, suicide is the second leading cause of death, with homicide being the third among people between the ages of 15 and 44. While counting the number of people who are hurt or killed due to a certain type of accidental injury is certainly one way to consider how a certain kind of injury affects Americans, there are other ways to gauge impact.

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