Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who has studied driverless vehicles, said the new laws leave many issues unaddressed. In part, that is be…
"State and federal driving laws obviously weren’t written with this technology in mind, but as Bryant Walker Smith of Stanford University’s Center for Inte…
"“Imagine that someone invents a time machine. Does she break the law by using that machine to travel to the past? Whether the new technology is time machi…
"...Smith (who is a fellow at Stanford’s Center for the Internet and Society) says that as a consequence, ever “since the 1930s, self-driving cars have bee…
Ever since the 1930s, self-driving cars have been just 20 years away. Many of those earlier visions, however, depended on changes to physical infrastructure tha…
"“One major question remains though,” Smith said. “Will tomorrow’s cars and trucks have to adapt to today’s legal infrastructure, or will that infrastructu…
“Today we are well underway to a solution of the traffic problem.”1 This claim, made by Robert Moses in 1948, is as true today as it was then. Which is to say,…
For instance: "Aspects of Autonomous Driving," the course offered at Stanford University Law School. "We can teach torts through 18th-century En…
"Florida, Nevada and California have all passed laws to make the cars street legal, thanks in large part to big lobbying efforts by Google, but according t…
An Oral History of Nevada's Groundbreaking Regulation of Self-Driving VehiclesTwo years ago, no state legislature had even contemplated self-driving cars. N…
Audio Version of Panel Talk Related publication: Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States An Oral History of Nevada's Groundbreaking Reg…
Bryant Walker Smith, Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States, 1 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 411 (2014) (SSRN) This 2014 law review article (an upda…