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Legal Issues with Robots
""The way the law works, there is a structure for product liability," says Peter Asaro, a professor at New York City's New School and a schol…
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Drone Makers Gather to Defend Their Much-Maligned Machines
"The tech geeks, though, were almost outnumbered by those of another stripe: philosophers, lawyers, and critics who propose that drones are "a differe…
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Liability could be roadblock for driverless cars
"“What will happen is everybody will get sued,” Smith told the conference. “Some (defendants) will win and some will lose. And those with the deepest pocke…
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Fined Drone Pilot Tests U.S. Industry Seen Reaching $89 Billion
"“They really occupy a new space and it’s very difficult to figure out how to regulate them,” Peter Asaro, an assistant professor at the New School in New…
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Drone Makers Gather to Defend Their Much-Maligned Machines
"The tech geeks, though, were almost outnumbered by those of another stripe: philosophers, lawyers, and critics who propose that drones are “a different on…
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Q&A: Privacy implications for aerial drones
"Al Jazeera: We're at a conference where the focus seems to be on the whiz-bangery of this technology. What's being lost in all this when it comes…
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The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
"As Stanford law fellow Bryant Walker Smith has argued, automated cars are probably legal in the United States, but only because of a legal principle that…
The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. If a small tree branch pokes out onto a highway and there’s no incoming traffic, we’d simply drift a little into the opposite l…
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The 12 Most Important Questions About Self-Driving Cars
"Bryant Walker Smith is a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and the Center for Automotive Research. He points out that a…
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Technology: Eyes in the sky
"“Drones are a much more visceral reminder of the surveillance state than anything the NSA is doing,” says Ryan Calo, a privacy law expert at the Universit…
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Thanks to Bryant Walker Smith for Guest-Posting Last Week on Self-Driving Cars
"Thanks to Stanford CIS and CAR fellow Bryant Walker Smith for guest-posting here at Volokh Conspiracy last week on driverless car technologies." *…
Looking at My Vehicle Automation Entries in the Rear-View Mirror
Thank you for reading my posts this week. If you happen to be Eugene Volokh or Ken Anderson, thank you in particular for making them possible. And if you were o…