The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. If a small tree branch pokes out onto a highway and there’s no incoming traffic, we’d simply drift a little into the opposite l…
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The 12 Most Important Questions About Self-Driving Cars
"Bryant Walker Smith is a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and the Center for Automotive Research. He points out that a…
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Technology: Eyes in the sky
"“Drones are a much more visceral reminder of the surveillance state than anything the NSA is doing,” says Ryan Calo, a privacy law expert at the Universit…
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A Brazilian Judge Orders Facebook off Air if It Fails to Remove a Defamatory Discussion
On October 2, 2013, Judge Bonvicino of the Civil Court of São Paulo granted an injunction to shut down Facebook in Brazil if a discussion is not removed. The al…
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World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap)
The World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap) is an online resource informing the public about evolving Internet regulation affecting freedom of expression and…
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Thanks to Bryant Walker Smith for Guest-Posting Last Week on Self-Driving Cars
"Thanks to Stanford CIS and CAR fellow Bryant Walker Smith for guest-posting here at Volokh Conspiracy last week on driverless car technologies." *…
Looking at My Vehicle Automation Entries in the Rear-View Mirror
Thank you for reading my posts this week. If you happen to be Eugene Volokh or Ken Anderson, thank you in particular for making them possible. And if you were o…
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Monday morning, the day when women feel ugly
"But according to Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, "the digitization of trade substantially alters the ability of firms to…
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Looking at My Vehicle Automation Entries in the Rear-View Mirror
Cross posted from The Volokh Conspiracy. Thank you for reading my posts this week. If you happen to be Eugene Volokh or Ken Anderson, thank you in particular f…
Planning for the Obsolescence of Technologies Not Yet Invented
Cross-posted from The Volokh Conspiracy. The automated motor vehicles that I have discussed this week are just one example of the remarkable technologies comin…
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Planning for the Obsolescence of Technologies Not Yet Invented
Cross-posted from The Volokh Conspiracy. The automated motor vehicles that I have discussed this week are just one example of the remarkable technologies comin…
The Reasonable Self-Driving Car
Cross-posted from Volokh Conspiracy. A common debate in many circles–including the comments on my posts here–is whether legal burdens, technical limitations, o…