With a crumbling road infrastructure, the pothole is going to no longer be a rare event but will instead be a frequent encounter. (GETTY IMAGES)

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider

I should sue! That’s what my friends told me to do.

They were looking at the damage done to the right fender and front right tire of my car. I had been driving innocently down a street in downtown Los Angeles and encountered a whopper of a pothole. I was doing the legal speed limit and was not driving recklessly.

When I turned a corner, an unexpected pothole loomed just after making the turn, and the right side of my car was doomed to enter into the gaping asphalt gash.

My guess is that I was going relatively slowly as I made the turn and it seemed to me that such a low speed would have made hitting the pothole a non-issue.

Nonetheless, there was a loud bang and scraping sound when I hit the pothole. I quickly pulled over to the side of the road to do a quick visual inspection of my car. The fender was scrapped and slightly bent. The tire appeared to be intact but had a strange bulbous-like protrusion now at the surface of the rubber.

Certainly, I was not the first person to find myself having become a victim of this particular pothole.

This specific street was popular since it led you to the on-ramp for the Harbor Freeway. Typically, each day, downtown L.A. office workers would go this way in the evening after work to get onto the freeway and make their way home. I’d bet that tons of drivers had hit that pothole. Maybe I should launch a class action lawsuit rather than suing solely on my own behalf!

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Originally posted by:

Lance Eliot

www.aitrends.com

February 6th, 2020