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Will your 'driverless' car ever get a traffic ticket?
"“Imagine that someone invents a time machine. Does she break the law by using that machine to travel to the past? Whether the new technology is time machi…
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Legal Infrastructure for Driverless Cars, and Comparisons Between the Law and Ethics of Self-Driving Cars and Autonomous Weapon Systems
"...Smith (who is a fellow at Stanford’s Center for the Internet and Society) says that as a consequence, ever “since the 1930s, self-driving cars have bee…
How Do You Ticket a Driverless Car?
Ever since the 1930s, self-driving cars have been just 20 years away. Many of those earlier visions, however, depended on changes to physical infrastructure tha…
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From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Year in Privacy and Security
Ryan Calo's Op-Ed mentioned in Wired's top privacy stories of 2012. * Date Published:12/27/2012 * Original Publication:Wired…
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The Top Five Most-Read TAP Blogs in 2012
One of the top five most-read blogs on TAP in 2012, in Drone Crash, Professor Ryan Calo examines the crash of a drone into a Texas police vehicle and outlines t…
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Are Driving Laws Fit for Driverless Vehicles?
"“One major question remains though,” Smith said. “Will tomorrow’s cars and trucks have to adapt to today’s legal infrastructure, or will that infrastructu…
Managing Autonomous Transportation Demand
“Today we are well underway to a solution of the traffic problem.”1 This claim, made by Robert Moses in 1948, is as true today as it was then. Which is to say,…
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Are Odd Electives a Waste?
For instance: "Aspects of Autonomous Driving," the course offered at Stanford University Law School. "We can teach torts through 18th-century En…
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Self-driving cars can navigate the road, but can they navigate the law?
"Florida, Nevada and California have all passed laws to make the cars street legal, thanks in large part to big lobbying efforts by Google, but according t…
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Why Do Mannequins That Spy On Us Creep Us Out?
Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law and my go-to source on all things robot: “The fact that the cameras resemble peo…
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Call For Papers: Robotics and the Law Conference at Stanford Law School
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for proposals: January 18, 2013 The program committee of We Robot: Getting Down To Business invites submissions from legal scholars a…
How an (Autonomous Driving) Bill Becomes Law (Audio)
An Oral History of Nevada's Groundbreaking Regulation of Self-Driving VehiclesTwo years ago, no state legislature had even contemplated self-driving cars. N…