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U.S. Micromobility Law (Major Road Work Ahead), Peter W. Martin

Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers

Over the past decade electrically powered bicycles, stand-up scooters, skateboards, and more have burst onto the nation’s streets and sidewalks. While some have been owned by their riders, a combination of embedded technology and smartphone apps allowed well-funded start-ups to distribute these novel e-vehicles across urban public spaces, making them available for on-demand, short-term rental. This blossoming of “micromobility” has taken place within physical and legal infrastructures ill-prepared for the change. Indisputably, most of the new types of individual motorized mobility fell outside established vehicle categories. The literal terms of existing law banned their use on all public rights of …

Chapter Eight - Technology And The Law: The Automobile (By James Willard Hurst), Bj Ard, William J. Novak

Articles

In this chapter we are going to talk about some of the automobile effects that it has had. Upon the law, and some of the effects that the law has had upon the automobile. We could undoubtedly open up some worthwhile lines of thought, if we talked about the automobile in relation to, certain brooder problems of which it is a part: for example, the effects of the internal combustion the growth engine, or of all types of communication. But we shall have enough on our hands if we stick to the automobile, and even so in the limits of …

Distracted Guardians Yield Deadly Results: When Memory Fails, Additional Regulations Can Protect Childen And Animals From Vehicular Heat-Stroke, Shannon Murphy

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

When the sun is shining bright on a scorching ninety-degree summer day, it takes less than an hour for tragedy to strike, even in the shade. Within less than sixty minutes, the temperature inside a closed vehicle will rise rapidly from the outdoor ninety-degree mark to upwards of more than one hundred and thirty degrees. As this temperature spike takes effect, any animal or child left in a vehicle will only have about fifteen minutes before being exposed to potentially deadly conditions.

While most of us think we are incapable of accidentally leaving our beloved child or companion in the …

How Reporters Can Evaluate Automated Driving Announcements, Bryant Walker Smith

Journal of Law and Mobility

This article identifies a series of specific questions that reporters can ask about claims made by developers of automated motor vehicles (“AVs”). Its immediate intent is to facilitate more critical, credible, and ultimately constructive reporting on progress toward automated driving. In turn, reporting of this kind advances three additional goals. First, it encourages AV developers to qualify and support their public claims. Second, it appropriately manages public expectations about these vehicles. Third, it fosters more technical accuracy and technological circumspection in legal and policy scholarship.

Let’S Be Reasonable: The Consumer Expectations Test Is Simply Not Viable To Determine Design Defect For Complex Autonomous Vehicle Technology, Emily Frascaroli, John Isaac Southerland, Elizabeth Davis, Woods Parker

Journal of Law and Mobility

Although highly automated vehicles (“HAVs”) have potential to reduce deaths and injuries from traffic crashes, product liability litigation for design defects in vehicles incorporating autonomous technology is inevitable. During the early stages of implementation, courts and juries will be forced to grapple with the application of traditional product liability principles to a never before experienced category of highly technical products. Recent decisions limiting the use of the consumer expectations test in cases involving complex products prompted the authors to examine more closely the history behind and the future viability of the consumer expectations test in HAV litigation.

Internal Revenue Code Section 4061(B), Manufacturers' Excise Tax On Parts And Accessories Of Motor Vehicles, Jerome L. Bleiweis

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Determinants Of Increased Safety Belt Use By High School Students In Motor Vehicles: The Influence Of Parents And Peers And Implications For Virginia's Graduated Driver Licensing Laws, Georjeane Linley Blumling

School of Public Service Theses & Dissertations

Motor vehicle crashes are the number one cause of injuries and fatalities for persons 15-19 years of age in the United States. The higher fatality rate is caused in part from the lack of driving experience and the increased risk taking behaviors of adolescent drivers. Graduated driver licensing laws have been enacted in most states to address the risks associated with inexperience by adding restrictions on nighttime driving and limiting the number of teen passengers in the vehicle for novice drivers.

Inconsistent use or non-use of a safety belt when riding in a motor vehicle is a prevalent risk taking …

State V. Askerooth: Re-Applying The Terry Principle Of Reasonableness To Traffic Stops Under The Minnesota Constitution, Jodie Carlson

William Mitchell Law Review

This note first discusses the Minnesota Supreme Court’s use of the Minnesota Constitution to provide broader protections for its citizens in the area of Fourth Amendment search and seizure law. This note then explains the rationale for the Minnesota Supreme Court’s decision in Askerooth. Finally, this note discusses the Atwater decision and whether it was necessary for the Minnesota Supreme Court to decide Askerooth under the state constitution.

Death By Automobile As First Degree Murder Utilizing The Felony Murder Rule, Greg Bailey

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Guest Statute Applicability To Motor Driven Golf Carts

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Automobile Exception To The Warrant Requirement: Speeding Away From The Fourth Amendment, Gene W. Gardner

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Vasap: A Rehabilitation Alternative To Traditional Dwi Penalties

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Asphalting Of America: How The Government Subsidizes Highway Pollution In The Boswash Smog Bank, James Sullivan, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

This article discusses the problem of air and noise pollution caused by motor vehicles circa the time of the article's writing (1972), and the public interest in dealing with these problems, in the light of federal government's conflicting interest in creating more roads. Mentioned is the fact that construction of more highways seems to be the federal government's answer to traffic congestion, while another point of view is that more highways encourages a rise in the number of motor vehicles on those roads. The article ends with some suggestions for how to deal with these problems.

Automobile Safety: A Diagnosis Of An Epidemic

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Unsafe At Any Speed. Ralph Nader., Conrad M. Cutcliffe

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Revocation Or Suspension Of Driver's Licenses

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Murder By Motorist

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Liability Of Principal For Automobile Accident Of Agent On Personal Business - Mider V. United States, David H. Clark

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Liability Of A Sponsor Of A Driver's License In Indiana

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Indiana Guest Statute

Indiana Law Journal

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Symposium: Radar Speedometers , John M. Kopper

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Indiana Automobile Guest Statute Construed

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Automobiles

Suggestions For The Trial Of Automobile Damage Suits, Charles A. Lowe

Indiana Law Journal

An address by the Honorable Charles A. Lowe of the Lawrenceburg, Indiana, Bar before the Legal Institute sponsored by the Indiana State Bar Association at the Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana, on January 24, 1941.

Some Problems Confronting Counsel In Defense Of Automobile Negligence Cases, Bert Beasley

Indiana Law Journal

An address by the Honorable Bert Beasley of the Marion County Bar at the Legal Institute sponsored by the Indiana State Bar Association at the Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana, on January 24, 1941.

Wilful And Wanton Conduct In Automobile Guest Cases, John A. Appleman

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.