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Double-winged flying car on the way?
"“Just that difference points to the potential for large drones that carry people,” said Stanford robotics expert Bryant Walker Smith. Ride-hailing giant…
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Uber’s “Self-Driving” Test Cars to Be Overseen by Driver and Engineer
"In Uber’s Pittsburgh experiment, two company employees (a driver and an engineer) will ride in each car along with passengers, who must first agree to tak…
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Why Uber is turning the streets of a U.S. city into its laboratory
"Even with safety drivers, Uber’s wager is risky because the project will allow vastly more people to see the technology’s flaws, said Bryant Walker Smith,…
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Uber to introduce self-driving cars to its fleet in coming weeks
"Uber's move to carry people with autonomous vehicles is not surprising, given the company's history of pushing into gray areas where there is litt…
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Uber's big test in the steel city
"By using human backup drivers, Uber is basically testing the technology and taking people along for the ride, said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of So…
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Uber To Roll Out Self-Driving Cars In Pittsburgh
""Pittsburgh is going to have some self-driving car tourism. That's exciting for them," says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at t…
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Uber to launch fleet of self-driving Volvos. Will Pittsburgh residents hop in?
"“Uber is doing the same thing many companies have been doing,” Bryant Walker Smith, an engineering professor at the University of South Carolina, told the…
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T-Mobile's New 'Unlimited' Data Plan Throttles Video, Slows Hotspots
"Net neutrality advocates criticized the feature on a number of fronts, including that the company's technical requirements excluded some video distrib…
When the Cops Come A-Knocking: Handling Technical Assistance Demands from Law Enforcement
What kind of surveillance assistance can the U.S. government force companies to provide? This issue has entered the public consciousness due to the FBI's de…
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WikiLeaks postings of Turkish emails included active links to malware
"“Wikileaks does not appear to operate within any particular principles with regard to information dumps. The ad hoc nature of their leaks means that they…
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US wiretap figures don't match what the phone giants are saying — and that's a problem
"Albert Gidari, a former leading privacy lawyer who now serves as director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, was fir…
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Ford plans to mass produce a 'no driver required' autonomous vehicle by 2021
"Bryant Walker Smith, an expert in legal aspects of autonomous driving, said that Ford's move points to how it plans to emphasize transportation as a s…