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Tesla’s Dubious Claims About Autopilot’s Safety Record
"Tesla’s comparisons are also undermined by the fact that its expensive, relatively large vehicles are much safer in a crash than most vehicles on the road…
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Tesla Autopilot death highlights autonomous risks
""The reality is that the public and regulators won't tolerate that kind of risk-taking even if over 50 years it means more people are saved,"…
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Tesla Crash Could Hurt Industry
""For years people have been saying the technology is ready, and it's one of my pet peeves, because no it's not," said Bryant Walker Smit…
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Researcher ethicist Q&A: 5 considerations for a transforming society
"New technology often raises new ethical questions -- and those questions only multiply as technology advances. Up until now, technology has largely remai…
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Experts: Tesla could be liable in fatal autopilot crash
"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor with the school of law at the University of South Carolina who specializes in autonomous vehicle regulations,…
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Traffic deaths climb 7.7% in 2015 to the highest toll since 2008
""Fatalities increased much more than vehicle miles traveled," said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South…
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The Next Great ‘Space Race’ Is Here: Driverless Cars
"“If the U.S. doesn’t get thoughtful about robotics policy, we will wind up losing out to these other nations,” Ryan Calo, an expert in cyber law and robot…
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If A Self-Driving Car Gets Into An Accident, Who Is To Blame?
"In that regard, the liability system won’t have to change much to adapt to self-driving cars, says Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor of the School…
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Frankenstein’s paperclips
"Deep learning, with its ability to spot patterns and find clusters of similar examples, has obvious potential to fight crime—and allow authoritarian gover…
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Why the US government should take Tesla up on its offer to share Autopilot data
"While the proposition was informal, the Department of Transportation, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South C…
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Moral Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars: Which Lives to Save in a Crash
""Focusing the public's attention on these hypotheticals also distracts from far more pressing ethical issues," Bryant Walker Smith, an assis…
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Your Self-Driving Car Will Be Programmed to Kill You—Deal With It
"Patrick Lin, the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, says we humans are a fickle lot, and that we…