The Los Angeles Times on May 28 reports, “A Los Angeles judge blames the design of the Land Rover Discovery SUV in the 2003 accident.” of a California man. While T he judge agreed Jaguar Land Rover must “pay $21.1 million. According to “Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert H. O’Brien” there are “two key reasons for his decision: The vehicle’s high center of gravity made it susceptible to rolling over, and its roof collapsed too easily, causing Sukhsagar Pannu to suffer a debilitating spinal cord injury.”

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Yesterday, we discussed allowing vehicles to talk to each other. The recommendation, in part, stems from two school bus accidents. In New Jersey last year a dump truck crashed into the rear left side of the school bus in an intersection spinning the bus into a pole. The