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Michigan moves forward with autonomous vehicle testing
"But Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who has studied the legal impact of self-driving cars, said that so…
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When your driverless car crashes, who will be responsible? The answer remains unclear
""Liability is a poorly understood word," said Bryant Walker Smith, one of the leading experts in the legal aspects of autonomous driving. "…
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Why Uber is turning the streets of a U.S. city into its laboratory
"Even with safety drivers, Uber’s wager is risky because the project will allow vastly more people to see the technology’s flaws, said Bryant Walker Smith,…
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Uber's big test in the steel city
"By using human backup drivers, Uber is basically testing the technology and taking people along for the ride, said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of So…
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Uber To Roll Out Self-Driving Cars In Pittsburgh
""Pittsburgh is going to have some self-driving car tourism. That's exciting for them," says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at t…
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Ford plans to mass produce a 'no driver required' autonomous vehicle by 2021
"Bryant Walker Smith, an expert in legal aspects of autonomous driving, said that Ford's move points to how it plans to emphasize transportation as a s…
The Promise And Challenge Of Driverless Cars
The ABA Annual Conference may not have been a lot of fun for, say, an institution on the cusp of a DOE smackdown, but as a member of the press — marked with a b…
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Who gets the blame when driverless cars crash? Everybody.
"Law professor Bryant Walker Smith of the University of South Carolina discussed some of the legal aspects of getting driverless cars on the road. There ar…
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Future Safety of Autonomous Vehicles Highlighted at Conference
"Autonomous vehicles’ rollout face tough value judgements that compare to rushing a drug to market before its dangers are fully known, said Patrick Lin, Ca…
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Tesla's Master Plan 2.0: AI experts, auto insiders, and Tesla customers weigh in
"Bryant Walker Smith, professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and School of Engineering, is one of the leading thinkers in the autonomo…
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This is how self-driving cars could change the way you walk
"There are also reasons to believe that automated cars would drive more slowly. For one thing, they would likely be programmed to stay within the speed lim…
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Tesla Won’t Be Able to Put Crash Defense on Autopilot
"“Any argument will try to establish that Tesla acted in an unreasonable way that was a cause of the crash," said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of…