How Do You Ticket a Driverless Car?
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…
Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving
Managing Autonomous Transportation Demand
“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,…
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Call For Papers: Robotics and the Law Conference at Stanford Law School
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for proposals: January 18, 2013 The program committee of We Robot: Getting Down To Business invites submissions from legal scholars a…
Automated Vehicles are Probably Legal in the United States
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…
Language, legality and liability
Bryant Walker Smith and Tom Gasser address the legal complexities that could threaten to bedevil the automated vehicle program. Read the full article in Thinki…
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A Self-Driving Crash Test
In honor of anyone who just took a bar exam, here's the wholly hypothetical scenario I used at last week's excellent multidiscliplinary workshop on road…
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Stanford Students: Fall 2012 Course on the Law of Autonomous Driving
Nantucket responded to the introduction of motor vehicles by banning them. And this is how the town's mail carrier responded to that ban: A century later,…
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Amendments to California's Autonomous Driving Bill
California's autonomous driving bill (SB 1298) has undergone further amendment. Two observations: What's changed: The newest version takes an increment…
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On Blind Drivers and Base Maps
Google has posted an inspiring video (with audio captions) of a legally blind individual riding in the front left seat of one of its self-driving cars as that c…
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Driving at Perfection
“Nothing is going to catch this car by surprise…. It’s going to see hundreds of feet in all directions. [You’re] not going to have a pedestrian ‘come out of now…
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Florida Autonomous Driving Bill Heads to Governor
On the final day of its regular scheduled session, Florida's Senate moved rapidly to unanimously pass CB/HB 1207, the autonomous driving bill that Florida&#…
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Apply Today!* Nevada's Autonomous Driving Regulation Takes Effect
*Note: Apply only if you have an autonomous vehicle with 10,000 miles under its belt and a million dollars (cash or bond) in its glove compartment. Nevada'…