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California's AV Testing Rules Apply to Tesla's "FSD"
Five years to the day after I criticized Uber for testing its self-proclaimed "self-driving" vehicles on California roads without complying with the t…
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U.S. regulators to rate new auto tech, but Europe leads in safety testing
"Carmakers in the United States are allowed to self-certify that their vehicles comply with existing rules, said University of South Carolina law professor…
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The Bold Robocar Roaming Las Vegas Without a Human Backup
"“Traditional wisdom was companies like Google, Waymo, or Toyota, or GM, or even Uber are going to be really responsible, because if something bad happens…
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What Autonomous Cars Can Teach Us About Driving - The Big Picture
"Patrick Lin is director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and he constructs grisly thou…
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Grocery delivery, with no human drivers, is underway
""This is not yet at the point where in any way it's economically better than just sending someone out in a car to deliver your groceries," s…
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Tesla fatal crash: 'autopilot' mode sped up car before driver killed, report finds
"The problems with the damaged highway divider do not “absolve Tesla of responsibility”, said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor and exper…
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Fatal Tesla Autopilot crash driver had hands off wheel: U.S. agency
"The report raised an issue for Tesla vehicles with Autopilot, as well as other vehicles with adaptive cruise control, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assista…
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Autonomous Vehicles: Safety, Risk, and the Law
"The observations from Smith, who holds dual degrees in law and engineering, were particularly insightful. He started by challenging widely held perception…
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Road Tech: new solutions to the challenges of traffic growth
"As Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at University of South Carolina puts it, “we focus on what’s really sexy, like self-driving cars. And we forge…
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California loosens rules for driverless cars, clearing the way for robot taxis
""Those deployments will start small but grow fast," said Bryant Walker Smith, a specialist in autonomous vehicle regulation at the University of…
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Driverless cars given green light to operate in California
“We will continue to see a mix of approaches in other states. Many are likely to have far less regulation than California,” said Bryant Walker Smith, assistant…
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Why Uber and Google Went to War Over Almost Nothing
"“There were lots of overlaps and informal sharing and all kinds of personalities early on,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at Stanford who spec…