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Self-Driving Cars Raise Questions About Who Carries Insurance
"Still, for many years, there will not be a large number of fully driverless cars on the road. So for the most part, says Bryant Walker Smith, a law profes…
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When self-driving vehicles crash, who's to blame?
"Where technology stands today — at level two or below — it’s the driver, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant law professor at the University of South C…
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Inside the car-eat-car world of self-driving technology
"“The money involved — the money expended in these research efforts and the money expected if they’re successful — has just ballooned and become so much mo…
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High-Tech Cars May Soon Be Talking To Each Other
"Bryant Walker Smith, a Stanford affiliate scholar specializing in technology and law, says this could let a single trucker lead a “platoon” of automated b…
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Supreme Court case could change the game for automotive patent lawsuits
"The ruling could also worsen the impending patent war among companies developing self-driving technology, said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South…
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Uber president quits over 'beliefs' and 'leadership,' highlighting toxic company culture
""This news certainly contributes to a narrative about Uber that will make hiring top engineering talent more difficult," said Bryant Walker Smit…
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Silicon Valley likes to "move fast and break things." What happens when it makes cars?
"“It's so easy to immediately focus on self-driving cars as the new and the scary and forget that every day 100 people die on the road,” Smith said. He…
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California’s Finally Ready for Truly Driverless Cars
"One thing missing from the regs: any driving test to pass before letting the robot fly solo. Instead, companies will “self-certify” their vehicles. “That’…
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California Gives the Green Light to Self-Driving Cars
"California is not the first jurisdiction to pass rules governing the deployment of fully automated vehicles. Michigan has a law contemplating driverless f…
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Robot cars — with no human driver — could hit California roads next year
"“California has taken a big step,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an expert in autonomous vehicle law at the University of South Carolina. “As I understand the…
Hyperloop Law: Autonomy, Infrastructure, and Transportation Startups
In 2013, Elon Musk proposed an "open source transportation concept" of levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hou…
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Waymo's Uber Lawsuit May Be Start Of A Google Patent War
"“I’ve been warning that we could eventually see automated driving patent wars that rival the smartphone patent wars from several years ago,” Bryant Walker…