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Tesla and Liability
An interesting article in last week’s Wall Street Journal spawned a series of unfortunate headlines (in a variety of publications) suggesting that Tesla had som…
Autonomous Driving
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Who's Responsible When a Self-Driving Car Crashes?
"For the first time, in March, an autonomous car drove itself from San Francisco to New York City. How is that even legal? That’s the kind of question Brya…
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Why Google’s Self-Driving Bubble Cars Might Catch On
"That still gives the design a lot of scope as an urban taxi, says Bryant Walker Smith, an expert on autonomous vehicles at the University of South Carolin…
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Self-Driving Cars Are Legal, But Real Rules Would Be Nice
"“That may force very difficult questions about what the legal regulation of the driver should be,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the…
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Google’s Homemade Self-Driving Cars to Hit Roads This Summer
"“The DMV and especially the state legislature, only listening to Google, wrote a law that was fine for Google but was really problematic for car manufactu…
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Automated Vehicle Crashes
Earlier this week, the Associated Press reported on several past crashes involving automated vehicles. (Per SAE Standard J3016, I use the term "automated v…
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Who’s Responsible when a Driverless Car Crashes? Tesla’s Got an Idea
"“Tesla is venturing into the mushy middle of automation, where the human still performs part of the driving task, the computer performs other parts,” said…
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Self-driving cars are getting into accidents in California
"It's a mistake to draw conclusions about self-driving vehicles from the recent crashes, said Bryant Walker Smith, who is both a law and engineering pr…
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Self-Driving Cars Can't Avoid Accidents on California Roads
""Assuming that you are not dead, you are in a much better positon than if you had been hit by an ordinary, human-driven vehicle," said Bryant Wa…
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Google’s driverless cars have been involved in three car accidents
"“It’s a tenuous stretch of that provision to say that it also covers autonomous vehicle reports,” says Bryant Walker-Smith, a lawyer with the Center for I…
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What we know and what we don’t know about accidents involving self-driving cars
"“As automated systems get more complex, human understanding also gets more complex. For a vehicle to suddenly swerve to the right, a human would have to g…
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Self-Driving Cars Getting Dinged in California
"Interest in accidents will remain high, especially if the self-driving car is at fault, said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of Sou…