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How to Help Self-Driving Cars Make Ethical Decisions
"Others believe the situation is a little more complicated. For example, Bryant Walker-Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina wh…
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What the Future of Self-Driving Cars Might Look Like
Self-driving cars – long the dream of science fiction, are closer to reality than you might think. In fact they’ve already traveled more than one million miles…
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Industry calls on lawmakers to re-examine rules for self-driving cars
"According to a 2014 law review article by Bryant Walker Smith, an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, many st…
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Should a Driverless Car Decide Who Lives or Dies?
"“This is going to set the tone for all social robots,” says philosopher Patrick Lin, who runs the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytec…
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EU‐US talks to show the road ahead for automated vehicles
"‘The Vienna Convention is not just a static document ... it exists within international structures for vehicle safety and vehicle regulation,’ said Profes…
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The Hurdles Facing Autonomous Vehicles
"“The ethics are different for humans and machines,” says Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.…
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You or the pedestrian: Ethics of autonomous cars making emergency decisions to save lives
"Dr Patrick Lin, director of ethics at California Polytechnic State University, wrote in 2014 that developing such a system "seems an awful lot like a…
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Tipping Point in Transit
"“All the things that we think will happen tomorrow, like fully autonomous cars, may take a very long time,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant profess…
Automated and Autonomous Driving: Regulation Under Uncertainty
This report examines various emerging regulatory issues surrounding the deployment of automated and autonomous vehicles. This work was based on the expert opini…
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"Mushy Middle" Threatens Driverless Roadways
""The problem is this 'mushy middle' of automation, where the human is disengaged enough to be really distracted but still have to perform som…
Regulation and the Risk of Inaction
Abstract This chapter begins with two fundamental questions: How should risk be allocated in the face of significant uncertainty—and who should decide? Its foc…
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Academic Perspectives on Automotive Software Licensing
There's recently been some great reporting and advocacy regarding the legal status of the software running modern motor vehicles. Here are a few academic pe…