Will There Ever Be a “Cure” for North Carolina Auto Accidents?
If you or someone you love was injured in a North Carolina truck, car, or motorcycle crash, you’re likely of two minds:
1. You want to get your life back and hold the other driver who hit you or caused the accident to justice and compel that person (or that person’s insurance company or somebody else) to pay for all of your medical bills, work time lost, et cetera.
2. You’re feeling afraid about the future, as well. It’s not uncommon for people who’ve been in car crashes in North Carolina or elsewhere to feel terrified about going back on the freeways.
To that end, after you deal with the urgent stuff in your life — like connecting with an auto accident law firm in Charlotte, like DeMayo Law — you will need to turn attention to the future.
What can you do to be a safer driver? What can auto manufacturers, road engineers, and safety planners do to prevent accidents like yours from happening again — or at least to make them less injurious if/when they do occur? Looking even deeper into the future, will there ever come a day when our society is “cured” of auto accidents? In other words, will our traffic and highway safety systems ever function to such an exquisite degree that crashed no longer happen?
That may sound like a Utopian scenario. Indeed, it is difficult to find any transportation system that humans have designed that operates fool-proofly. But just because we haven’t succeeded in the past doesn’t mean that we never will.
For instance, as on-board computer motion detectors get more advanced, cars will likely soon come equipped with mechanisms that will automatically stop cars on the verge of crashing into objects or swerving out of lane. In the more distant future, some futurists believe that robot drivers — who are not subject to the kinds of mistakes or fatigue (or mid-driving tweets) that humans are – will enter our world.
There has also been talk of creating magnetic highways that essentially turn cars into hover cars, much like Japanese bullet trains.
The advent of this kind of technology could drastically reduce crash rates and severities — while boosting travel time and comfort, simultaneously.
There is always a danger in playing the prognostication game, however. We simply don’t know what new risks, opportunities, technologies, and needs will exist 10 to 15 years from now, much less 100 or 200 years from now. We may currently reside in what will be looked back upon as a golden era of transportation. On the other hand, we might be living in the transportation dark ages.
Dealing with the now, not with the idealized future.
There is a time to reflect and ponder the great mysteries of North Carolina accident prevention. But there is also a time to soberly deal with your practical challenges.
If you or someone you care about needs help, the team at the law offices of Michael A. DeMayo is here to discuss your concerns and provide a free case consultation.
