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Car Makers Test Technology to Make You Pay Attention to the Road
"But driver assistance features increasingly are playing a role, suggesting AI is being employed to fix a problem created by automation. Radar-enhanced cru…
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3 times humans have sued their robot impostors — and won
"It turns out that several people have found themselves in that situation over the years. University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo explores how the…
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New state bill would let cops shoot down drones
""I am not sure why Utah believes it has the authority to allow local law enforcement to ‘neutralize’ a technology, which the FAA characterizes as an…
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Self-driving cars get ready to roll
"Q: Is this an uphill battle for self-driving car proponents? Not necessarily. Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina wh…
What the Past of Robotics Law Says About Its Future
One day, robots will present difficult legal challenges. This seems to be the consensus among commentators. And who am I to disagree? I have myself argued, righ…
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Google self-driving car hits public bus near Mountain View headquarters
"However, Bryant Walker Smith, a risk, technology and mobility expert at Stanford University and assistant professor in both law and engineering at the Uni…
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When Regulating Self-Driving Cars, Who’s at the Wheel?
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina, believes automated vehicles are already legal in the United States, and wrote a…
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Google accepts blame for its self-driving car causing crash
"“The real world is messy! And it’s why the most important criteria for the early deployments of automated vehicles will be location, location, location,”…
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The First ‘Robotic' Car Crash Happened in 1947
"This case is a curio of weird American history, and it’s a frustrating look at gender roles at the time. But it’s not entirely frivolous to look back at t…
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Google's self-driving car caused an accident, so what now?
""This is just one accident, and we will likely see more," said Bryant Walker Smith an assistant professor of law at the University of South Caro…
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Legal Analysis Finds Judges Have No Idea What Robots Are
"We can’t be sure what Brieant was thinking when he ordered poor Walter killed (Brieant died in 2008), but a new legal analysis by Ryan Calo, an assistant…
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Nine key legal cases about robots, and the messy legal future of robotic devices
"Robot legal theorist Ryan Calo writes, "I thought you might enjoy my new paper, canvassing decades of American case law involving robots. Courts have…