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Down the road, the car will take you out for a spin
"Bryant Walker Smith, a Stanford fellow and member of the school's Center for Automotive Research, has been looking into and blogging on those issues.…
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As automakers tap smartphone technology, concerns grow about use of drivers’ data
"“As with cellphones, what private companies do with that data and what government does with that data can be pretty shocking. People are vaguely aware of…
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Human error as a cause of vehicle crashes
Some ninety percent of motor vehicle crashes are caused at least in part by human error. This intuitive claim is a fine place to start discussions about the saf…
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SAE Levels of Driving Automation
UPDATE 2: A new 2016 version of SAE J3016 is now freely available! UPDATE 1: The old 2014 version of SAE J3016 is here, and a free summary is here. SAE Inter…
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Is the World Ready for Self-Driving Cars?
Listen to the full interview over at KCRW. The cars of today are almost fully automated, and the smart technology for driverless cars has now been developed. W…
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An End to Traffic Jams Forever
"So it was intriguing to hear policy and automation expert, Bryant Walker Smith, at the Georgetown symposium. Smith is a fellow at Stanford Law School’s Ce…
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Autonomous Cars Will Reshape the Legal Landscape
About 250 million passenger vehicles crowd American roads, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation statistics. They take different paths, yet new models…
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Liability could be roadblock for driverless cars
"“What will happen is everybody will get sued,” Smith told the conference. “Some (defendants) will win and some will lose. And those with the deepest pocke…
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The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
"As Stanford law fellow Bryant Walker Smith has argued, automated cars are probably legal in the United States, but only because of a legal principle that…
The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. If a small tree branch pokes out onto a highway and there’s no incoming traffic, we’d simply drift a little into the opposite l…
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The 12 Most Important Questions About Self-Driving Cars
"Bryant Walker Smith is a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and the Center for Automotive Research. He points out that a…
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Thanks to Bryant Walker Smith for Guest-Posting Last Week on Self-Driving Cars
"Thanks to Stanford CIS and CAR fellow Bryant Walker Smith for guest-posting here at Volokh Conspiracy last week on driverless car technologies." *…