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Top 10 developments of 2016 in autonomous vehicles
""Automated driving developments in 2016 became more concrete," said Bryant Walker Smith, an expert in legal aspects of autonomous driving, "…
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Michigan Just Embraced the Driverless Future
"“As near as I can tell from the language and the context, what’s going on is a specific effort to implement a specific regime for a specific company,” say…
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Michigan lets autonomous cars on roads without human driver
"But Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who tracks the technology, says Florida has almost no restrictions. Other sta…
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Michigan gets forward-thinking self-driving laws
"Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who closely follows the legal issues tied to self-driving technology, said that particul…
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Michigan Just Passed the Most Permissive Self-Driving Car Laws in the Country
"Still, there are some questions about the clarity of the language in SB 995 and , according to Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor of law and enginee…
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You Should Be Able to Use Tesla's Self-Driving Mode to Make Money
"Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina, and a specialist in the emerging legal frameworks for autonomous vehi…
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What Elaine Chao as Transportation secretary could mean for commercial drone use
"Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington who specializes in robotics law and policy, said fewer regulations could benefit…
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Apple hints that self-driving car rumors may be true in recent letter to NHTSA
"Should it begin experimenting with driverless technology, Apple would join companies including Google, Tesla, Uber, and Intel in the autonomous vehicle ma…
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How Otto defied Nevada and scored a $680 million payout from Uber
"Otto’s argument might not hold up if challenged, says Ryan Calo, a law professor who teaches a class on robotics law and policy at the University of Washi…
Autonomous Weapons: an Interview With the Experts
FLI’s Ariel Conn recently spoke with Heather Roff and Peter Asaro about autonomous weapons. Roff, a research scientist at The Global Security Initiative at Ariz…
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Microsoft’s HoloLens headset will allow real tank operators to see the battlefield outside
"“[The technology] would give us the best of both worlds: It would take the human warfighter out of harm’s way, but it would also give robotic systems the…
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Boston becomes latest city for driverless car tests, in partnership with nuTonomy
"There are still no official plans for the public to test nuTonomy's vehicles in Boston. The cars will still be supervised by a "research driver,&…