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By Bryant Walker Smith on October 4, 2013 at 12:00 am
By Bryant Walker Smith on October 3, 2013 at 2:38 am
By Bryant Walker Smith on October 1, 2013 at 12:00 am
Cross-posted from Volokh Conspiracy.
Since the 1950s, the Long Beach Freeway has linked the massive Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to, roughly, the rest of the continental United States. Because much has changed in trade and traffic since then, California’s relevant transportation authorities have decided that perhaps this freeway should change as well. Read more about The Impact of Automation on Environmental Impact Statements
By Bryant Walker Smith on September 30, 2013 at 12:00 am
By Bryant Walker Smith on May 27, 2013 at 5:25 pm
"Will lawsuits kill the autonomous car?" That's a dramatic expression of a common question. (And one to which Twitter has a short retort.) Here’s the conceptual answer that I’ve been giving for a year, now in blog form (with bonus Italics). Read more about Uncertain Liability
By Bryant Walker Smith on April 15, 2013 at 11:58 am
By Bryant Walker Smith on July 31, 2012 at 1:58 pm
In honor of anyone who just took a bar exam, here's the wholly hypothetical scenario I used at last week's excellent multidiscliplinary workshop on road vehicle automation (with slight modifications): Read more about A Self-Driving Crash Test
By Bryant Walker Smith on July 10, 2012 at 6:16 pm
A century later, driverless cars and trucks have the potential to revolutionize society as much as the horseless carriages that preceded them. This emerging technology raises important questions -- about legality and liability, privacy and security, even intellectual property and land use -- that demand thoughtful analysis from a variety of perspectives. For these reasons, I am excited to be teaching an inaugural seminar on the legal aspects of autonomous driving. This Fall 2012 course is open to Stanford University students who want to meaningfully advance that analysis. Law students should preregister by this Friday, July 13th, 2012; others should follow these steps. Read more about Stanford Students: Fall 2012 Course on the Law of Autonomous Driving
By Bryant Walker Smith on June 20, 2012 at 7:06 am
California's autonomous driving bill (SB 1298) has undergone further amendment. Two observations: Read more about Amendments to California's Autonomous Driving Bill
By Bryant Walker Smith on May 28, 2012 at 3:52 pm
In the United States over the next ten years, governments may spend some $1.5 trillion on their roadways, consumers may purchase vehicles worth nearly $3 trillion, property owners may develop millions of acres of rural land, and the US Postal Service may drive its cars and trucks approximately 12 billion miles (with FedEx alone adding 10 billion miles more). How might these massive numbers—and others like them—be harnessed to smooth the deployment of self-driving vehicle technologies? Read more about Planning for Autonomous Driving