Can I sue the valet parking for my car getting hit?
So I brought my son to the hospital, and when you go to the emergency room they valet your car for you because the lot is so far away. We were sitting in there for a little over a half hour and someone comes inside and says is that your car? I say yes and they tell me to come outside. Come to find out some old man hit my car and drove away. So after filling out the paperwork and filing a police report they find the guys plate number from some witness. The next couple days im stuck trying to figure out how to get my car door fixed and who it will go through. The valet parking company calls me back a couple days later after not successfully getting the mans info and they tell me they are going to take full responsibilty for it because they did have posession of my keys so they are somewhat at fault after not being able to blame the old man. So my car needs a whole new door and they got me a rental and need to buy me 2 new car seats because they were in the car when it got hit. My question is can I sue the hospital valet for not paying attention to my car and letting it get hit? I have no idea why my car sat there for so long anyways since they usually just take it to the lot right when you give them the keys. Please give me some advise if you think its possible. The only reason I wonder about this is because my friends keep saying how the insurance company is doing whatever I want because it seems like they dont want me to sue them. Who knows! Advise please! And if you think its possible how would I start this process and what kind of lawyer?
Will getting in an accident affect me getting a valet job?
I got into an accident a couple of days ago with another car. After speaking with my claims representative it sounds like they are not going to assign fault to either me or the other drive and we will both be responsible for our own damages. I don't think I should be responsible for any damages at all but that is a separate issue. Prior to this I had not been in an accident since I was in high school which was about six years ago. Earlier in the week I had put in applications for jobs at a couple valet places. On the job applications I filled out they did not ask about my driving record just if I had a valid drivers license and could drive a manual. Do you think they will ask for my driving record from my insurance company? Or will they ask for my record for the state? Will the accident even show up in the state record?
Will self driving cars take the jobs of valet attendants?
Yes. But perhaps it depends on how far into the future you're looking at. I think it will take a long time to even have a lot of self driving cars on the roads, leave alone enough to take the jobs away from valet attendants. Think about it: there are over 250 million cars in the US alone. Now, think how long it will take to polish off the technology and perfect it to the point beyond simply driving on high ways on the East Coast. Imagine the amount of testing that would need to happen to actually operate in the big cities with all the unpredictability of being surrounded with pedestrians, potholes, bicycles, cars running on red lights, people making wrong turns and busting U-turns, not following the signs, etc. How would they operate when is snows heavily? It will be years of machine learning to get them to the level of being accepted not just as safe, but safer than normal cars. Then it might take over a decade to have all the cities and municipalities to okay them (think if marijuana adoption and how slow that is happening, although it is considered to be more or less harmless). Can you imagine all the hurdles self driving cars would need to face once the first fatal accidents start happening? Then imagine how long it will take for 250 million of conventional cars to be replaced by the self-driving ones. Who knows how our cities will look by then. Maybe valet as a service will be obsolete because it is way too manual and bit outdated as a service? Maybe the car ownership will go down and parking will stop being such a big issue in general. Maybe an automation and management of parking garages will be improved so much with technology that the valet attendants will no longer be needed. All of this can happen even before self-driving cars take over our roads and highways.
I got in an accident. Will it affect my record?
I am 15 and I got in a car accident in Alabama. I was driving with my grandma and as I was parking (not going even 5 mph) I barely hit the back bumper of a car. None of the airbags deployed in either car, and there wasn t a person in the other car either. I did scratch the car s bumper and left a bump in it too. My mom told me about this law that if minors get in an accident, it doesn t affect your record but we are trying to find it and can t find it. Does someone know the name of this law? Will this affect my record? Thanks
Do traffic tickets affect employment? Why or why not?
Many traffic tickets in fact carry jail time (eg driving without a license), and even the others can affect employment if they show up on your background check and reveal irresponsibility or an inability to take care of your obligations.
Suing for injuries after car accident?
Got rear ended at the light hit by a women going 40. Gone to the ER now I'm having bad hip and back pain and have to see a doctor to figure out what to do about it. Worried about my job because I'm a valet for a hotel and I can't stand too much
How do misdemeanors affect employment?
Depends on the job and what the misdemeanors are. For instance, if the misdemeanors are for DWI or other traffic offenses, they could effect a person’s ability to get a driving job. If even one of the misdemeanors are for sex offenses like indecent exposure or public lewdness, an applicant might have trouble finding employment with children. If the misdemeanors are for retail theft, employment in security, law enforcement, and retail sales are unlikely. So you see, it depends on the misdemeanor and the job you are applying for. If given a choice between hiring someone with a clean background and someone with multiple misdemeanors, and all other factors between two candidates are the same, clean background will win.So what can someone do about it, you could talk to a lawyer about getting an expungement. But generally, the more time that passes, the less the misdemeanors matter. A conviction 3 years ago is not going to have the same effect on someone's chances, as one a few months ago.These are just my opinions based on back grounds I read as a cop.
Do you think driver-less cars will eliminate jobs?
Yes, I do think that. The math on this is pretty simple: we are automating a job currently done by humans.There are lots of jobs over thousands of years that have been given over to machines. Because machines can do it faster (e.g. the cotton gin), machines can do it better (e.g. accounting software), or machines can mass produce a result that humans have create from scratch each time (e.g. house musicians during movies in the Silent Era all losing their jobs overnight when Talkies were invented).And more than just driver jobs. There will be less demand for emergency room staff at hospitals. Less need for insurance adjustors. Autobody repair, parking attendants, parking enforcement, etc. Fasten Your Seatbelts: Google's Driverless Car Is Worth Trillions (Part 1) is a six part article on Forbes about the disruption these devices will cause.Humans driving cars cause accidents. This loss of life and property is a drain on the economy. It needs to be eliminated, driven down to the lowest impact possible. That means replacing the human driver.No one cries for the loss of film processing technicians now that everyone has gone to digital. In fact, digital photography has caused an explosion on camera usage and photo sharing, all cutting out the drag on that economy that was film processing. Facebook, in 2013, had more photos uploaded than all of the photos every taken in the history of mankind up to that year. Removing human labor and costs can liberate some economies. I look forward to seeing what new opportunities and innovations come from eliminating human drivers.
What will be the economic impact of driverless cars?
It’s going to be very interesting…First, a lot of people are going to lose their jobs. I roughly estimate between 5 and 10 Million people (in the US) will loose their jobs over this technology.There are currently 3.5 Million Heavy Commercial Truck Drivers in the US, and there are another 8.7 Million in truck company non-driving jobs that will be somewhat reduced as well.There are 1.4 Million Delivery Truck Drivers.There are 0.7 Million Bus Drivers.There are about 0.30 Million taxi drivers and chauffeurs. Almost all of their jobs will be lost.Then there are all the secondary job losses we will see from the improved safety and the fewer car accident expected from self driving cars.Somewhere between ~50% and ~90% of about 1.1 Million police officers are on traffic patrol (depending on the size of the individual departments). That will become a mostly irrelevant job function.There are about 0.22 Million auto-body and paint shop employees. They won’t all loose their jobs, but a substantial percentage (probably in the ~50%-85% range) will close.ER workers/staff see about 10%-15% of their patients due to car accidents. So there will be job losses there too.All those road side gas stations that specialize in sales to truckers are going to see big reductions in staff and supplies; not a lot of self driving cars need snacks and showers…I’m sure you can see where this is going…Second, cities may get bigger. The suburban migration occurred as cars became more available after WWII.Self-driving cars will only exaggerate that trend. It doesn’t mean everyone will move out to what is now considered “the country,” but more will because it will be easier to drive longer distances.