""Make the ethics programming in an autonomous car transparent in order to set expectations with users and society, and be able to defend those progra…
"“Today, drivers are not trained or tested for that change in control,” says Patrick Lin, director of the ethics and emerging sciences group at California…
“Even if it’s a rare problem, autonomous car manufacturers still need to specify some action [in the event of an unavoidable crash], and the wrong one could lea…
"“Let me quote, depending on your preference, Voltaire or Spider-Man: ‘With great power comes great responsibility’,” noted auto technology legal expert Br…
"Patrick Lin, director of the ethics and emerging sciences group at California Polytechnic State University, adds, “Allowing manufacturers to have variable…
"Bryant Walker Smith, professor of law and engineering at the Univ. of South Carolina in Columbia, said the burden of liability is likely to shift more to…
"Bryant Walker Smith, professor of law and engineering at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, said the burden of liability is likely to shift mor…
(English translation.) "In countries where these cars are planned there are loopholes that need to be resolved, recognizes the lawyer Bryant Walker Smith o…
We are not ready for driverless cars because our public officials lack the expertise to evaluate the safety of this new class of automobiles. When Congress ask…
One of my courses this semester is Technology Law: Law of the Newly Possible. This seminar, at the University of South Carolina School of Law, examines how law…
"I want to highlight an important new blog post (“Slow Down That Runaway Ethical Trolley“) on the ethical trade-offs at work with autonomous vehicle system…
The runaway trolley has chased automated motor vehicles into the new year. In early 2012, I raised a variation of the classic thought experiment to argu…