Better Technology: A Long-Term Solution for North Carolina Truck Accidents?
The pundits, politicians, bloggers, and soothsayers who study the problem of North Carolina truck accidents – and who mull over policy solutions to prevent horrific crashes or at least make accidents slightly less horrific – rarely explore “out of the box” initiatives. That’s understandable. Our policymakers like to ground their ideas in good science and research.
However, from time to time, it may help to consider counterintuitive solutions. Here is one of those: What if we improved technology to reduce the load burden on trucks, thereby reducing the volume of trucks on our state’s roads?
With fewer trucks on the roads, there would be fewer truck accidents.
Let’s walk through the logic a little more carefully. Thanks to information-sharing technologies, social networking, and other web- and mobile-assisted mechanisms, people in North Carolina can now access goods and services virtually. Thus, in some areas of our lives, we depend less on real “brick and mortar” supplies to help us and more on virtual solutions. For instance, instead of buying an alarm clock, you can just buy an alarm clock app on your phone. This reduces (in a small way) the amount of materials that need to be shipped, purchased, wrapped, etc.
Think about this more broadly: Imagine what might happen if we found solutions that allowed us to “outsource” many of the tasks that we now delegate to real objects. Obviously, you can’t “download” a chair to sit on. But you can download books and magazines, and you can also download systems and structures. It might take some creativity to figure out “virtual solutions” to problems like “how do I cook my dinner?” and “how do I build my porch addition?” And virtual solutions will only reduce our needs for real goods – they won’t replace them all together, unless we end up, in the distant future, living in some dystopian world, like out of a Philip K. Dick novel.
Until then, however, we can start to think creatively about how to reduce our shipping footprint and reduce the need to ship so much stuff. If we did that, we could reduce the number of trucks on the road and thus cut down on the number of serious North Carolina truck accidents.
Need more help? Connect with an experienced North Carolina truck accident law firm.
More web resources:
Why “Going Virtual” Equals “Going Green”
How More and More of Our Lives Are Becoming Virtual
