Earlier this year, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said that self-driving cars have arrived. “They can drive on the highway,” she said, “Follow the white lines on the highway, and there’s really no need for any person to be seated and controlling any of the instruments.” Chao was wrong. Driverless cars are not ready yet to […]
If you drive east of Lake Charles on Interstate 10 for about an hour, you will come to Rayne, Louisiana. The modestly sized town has been in the news recently because a 42-year-old resident has been charged with vehicular homicide after he allegedly hit and killed a bicyclist with his car and then fled the scene. The […]
His driver’s license was suspended in Louisiana and his right to drive in Virginia had been revoked. Nevertheless, a 55-year-old truck driver was on the road, although law enforcement officials say he was in no shape to be behind the wheel of a 1998 Freightliner tractor-trailer, hauling a load of lumber in Maine. In March […]
As everyone who has ever driven on I-10 knows, the biggest and most dangerous vehicles on the road are 18-wheelers. Some regular readers of our Lake Charles legal blog will undoubtedly recall a recent effort by a Louisiana legislator to slow tractor-trailers and other plus-sized vehicles down. The Times-Picayune reports that the bill to lower […]
