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Self-Driving Cars Would Need a Driver in California
"“California is the place that everyone’s watching and learning what to do and what not to do,” said Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the Univer…
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Sorry, Google: California's self-driving car bill would prioritize unknown rival
"Some carmakers, including Tesla, are building vehicles with increasingly sophisticated driver assistance systems. The other approach, favoured by Google,…
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How Human Do We Want Our Robots To Be?: A Future Tense Event Recap.
"The central issue may come down to what Christine Rosen, senior editor of the New Atlantis, called “the Stepford Wife problem,” which she described as the…
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Drone Lobbying Heats Up on Capitol Hill
"“Now that there is so much interest and money in drones, everyone wants to get their say” said Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law at the University…
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Auto leaders lend advice on regulating future car tech
"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina, went a bit further in depth with his advice. “The details matter…
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Human Driver, Taking Over From Computer, Crashes Autonomous Car
"University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith, who wrote a book-length paper on the legality of autonomous vehicles, calls this the “mush…
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A QUOI RÊVENT LES ROBOTS ?
"Alors, quelle activité en propre restera-t-il aux humains face à des robots habiles, véloces et calculateurs ? Le philosophe Dominique Lestel, dans son ou…
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The Feds Will Have Rules for Self-Driving Cars in the Next 6 Months
"“This is an aggressive and ambitious embrace of automated driving,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina S…
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Cadillac’s Delaying Its First Whack at a Self-Driving Car
"Tesla has willingly stepped into a “mushy middle space,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of La…
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You may be powerless to stop a drone from hovering over your own yard
"Some argue the agency has the legal authority to address the privacy issues raised by drones. But the agency “does not consider privacy to be their role o…
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Google says its futuristic self-driving cars needed some old-fashioned human intervention to avoid 11 crashes during testing on California roads
"Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina who closely follows self-driving car developments, said the rate of potential collisi…
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Google reports self-driving car mistakes: 272 failures and 13 near misses
"Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor in the School of Law at the University of South Carolina, says the DMV could reasonably ask for more information.…