It's finally here! Uber has come to Macon, and the entire county showed up for the big opening day celebration on May 11th. Uber coming to Middle Georgia opens up a new mode of transportation for thousands of people in the area, but it might also bring turmoil to our...
Month: May 2016
Why Is The Takata Airbag Recall Expanding Again?
The government gave Takata Corp until December 2019 to prove that airbag inflators using ammonium nitrate propellant were safe for public use. The mandate was considered a stay of execution for the embattled parts manufacturer, which has been dealing with the largest...
Saving Wounded Warriors One Mile At A Time
Our men and women in arms risk their lives every day to defend our freedom, and when they come home, they deserve to be treated as heroes, but that doesn't always happen. Our veterans often come home with emotional wounds as deep as the physical damage they suffered...
Truck Accident Settlement Reached, But Was Justice Served?
It was supposed to be their last day of rotations at St. Joseph's-Candler Hospital in Savannah when a group of nursing students at Georgia Southern University piled into a few cars and drove onto Interstate 16. These students were on their way to becoming nurses and...
Can Doctors Save Lives With A Faster Diagnosis?
When it comes to lung cancer, a timely diagnosis can mean the difference between life and death-a fact British doctors are far too familiar with. In Britain it was found that over one-third of lung cancer patients died within three months of being diagnosed with the...
Will New Bike Trails Make Georgia Safer For Riders?
Wednesday April 6th, a man riding with his cycling group was hit from behind by a car that was negotiating a corner on Lower Woolsey Road in Hampton. The 59-year-old rider, a local doctor and cycling enthusiast, would later die at the hospital. Two weeks later, a...
Would You Speed If An App Told You To?
It was the night of September 10th, 2015, when a Georgia Uber driver and his wife encountered headlights zooming toward their Mitsubishi Outlander. They had no idea that the car behind those lights was driving at 107 miles per hour. They had no idea that a social...
Have You Been Driving While Distracted?
Tuesday, April 12th, a military convoy was stopped outside of Robins Air Force Base, waiting to get in, when a Black Dodge Ram pickup slammed into a Humvee at the rear of the convoy. Like a line of dominoes, vehicles crashed into each other until three Humvees and the...
Can Social Media Fight Aggressive Driving?
Have you heard of the Facebook page "You Can't Drive, Dallas"? It's a social media page created by a retired police officer in The Colony-a suburb of Dallas. You see, his neighborhood was swallowed up by traffic when a new road construction project was started on a...
Why Do Georgia Dental Malpractice Victims Have To Wait Years For Justice?
It was another normal day for a Floyd County mother when she took her daughter in to see the dentist. The girl was only 1-year-old, and fresh to the experience of a dental office, but this visit would become a baptism by fire. When the 1-year-old left the exam room,...
