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Jumped Too Short
"Bryant Walker Smith, a scientist at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, describes an additional challenge: At the end of the progr…
Autonomous Driving
Here’s a Terrible Idea: Robot Cars With Adjustable Ethics Settings
Do you remember that day when you lost your mind? You aimed your car at five random people down the road. By the time you realized what you were doing, it was t…
Autonomous Vehicles and the Law
“You can look forward to automation as a similar set of local and national tensions and developments and opportunities,” said Bryant Walker Smith. Smith was com…
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Britain has ambitious plan for driverless cars, but roadblocks remain
"“It’s an early statement by a national government that this is a policy priority," said Bryant Walker Smith, an associate law professor at the Univer…
Hands-Free Driving for $10,000
Bryant Walker Smith appears beginning at 1:55. Watch the full segment at NBC Nightly News.…
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Driverless tech: First comes carriage ... then the law
""Under the existing code, a human user could almost always be considered a 'driver,' " regardless of where that person is, Smith said. &…
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New Book: Road Vehicle Automation
Road Vehicle Automation, which was inspired by the Transportation Research Board's eponymous 2013 workshop at Stanford, collects a variety of public, privat…
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How to Make Driverless Cars Behave
"“I’ve been telling them that, at this very early stage, what’s important isn’t so much nailing down the right answers to difficult ethical dilemmas, but t…
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Europe demands driverless cars be driveable
""In contrast the European Union has looked at automation much more broadly in the context of economic development and mobility," Smith notes, &q…
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How Google got states to legalize driverless cars
"Bryant Walker Smith, who teaches the law of self-driving cars as a fellow at Stanford University, described one rule-drafting session where Google — not t…
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Rules for Self-Driving Cars in Legal Gray Area
""They're probably legal already, and that's true in pretty much most states," said Bryant Walker Smith, a legal expert and fellow at the…
Adapting the Vehicle to a New Society: How Will Shifting Attitudes and Vehicle Technology Change the Way We Drive?
The automobile has proven to be one of the most popular and transformational transport technologies ever. Now, however, slightly more than a century after its i…