Category: Auto Safety

March 31, 2016

AAA survey shows 87% of Michigan drivers say they engaged in at least one “risky behavior” while driving Try an experiment. Drive down the road today and look over to your left and your right. It’s pretty much guaranteed you will see the drivers texting, talking on a cell phone, or even eating a burger …

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March 25, 2016

Google self-driving car, while in ‘autonomous mode,’ gets in car accident with bus; assumed bus ‘would stop or slow’ to allow Google car to change lanes Does Google’s recent accident show that driverless, computer-driven cars might not really be ready for the road? Or does this crash with a bus show just how aggressive many …

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February 8, 2016

Flawed USA Today column  saying it ‘might make sense to let robo-drivers be less safe than humans’ raises ethical, insurance and liability issues for accident victims of autonomous cars While I’m a lawyer that helps people injured in automobile accidents, I look forward to the day when driverless cars replace human drivers. Make no mistake, …

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December 14, 2015

Our Michigan Auto Law attorneys set the record straight, with a reminder to drive safe and smart this holiday season Who’s the most dangerous on the road? The texting driver? The drunk driver? The driver who’s high on pot? Or the drowsy driver? Sure, everyone now knows about drunk driving, but it took decades for …

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November 7, 2015

Michigan Auto Law attorney Todd Berg gives autoinsurancecenter.com insight on what drivers can do if they’ve filed Michigan pothole claims for vehicle damage

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September 25, 2015

Attorneys Kevin Seiferheld and Steven Gursten weigh in on Fox 2 News The issue of when it’s time to take away the keys away from elderly drivers is in the news again, this time after a Michigan State trooper was allegedly hit and killed by an elderly driver. It isn’t the first time. It won’t …

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August 22, 2015

A 32-acre site is the testing ground for autonomous cars, and our attorneys hope will help create a future without car accidents MCity, the world’s first controlled test center for self-driving, cars opened last week on a 32-acre site on the University of Michigan’s north campus. And it’s a game changer for the rapid development …

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August 1, 2015

Surprise! Humans are still way more dangerous than autonomous cars The media went crazy for about 24 hours with stories about the first injury-producing car accident involving a Google car. But, it turns out it was a human who caused the crash. After 1.9 million miles of test driving Google cars, these miraculous vehicles – …

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July 17, 2015

Our attorneys are parents too. And we often receive questions from friends on what Michigan’s car seat laws are, and other tips for protecting our children when they’re traveling in the car. Here’s an email we received on when to switch a child from a car seat to a booster seat: Q. At what age, …

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