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Political ad drives fear of driverless cars
Good thing robotic cars have nerves of steel: they’re officially on the receiving end of a political attack ad that makes the technology look like a frightening…
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Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident Under Computer Control
This technology is still at its very early stages and 300,000 miles is not all that big of a sample. According to a "cursory" analysis by Bryant Walke…
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Report by the CIS Summer Research Interns on the Transportation Research Board’s 2012 Workshop on the Future of Road Vehicle Automation
Report by David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas CIS summer research interns David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas joined Resident Fel…
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A Self-Driving Crash Test
In honor of anyone who just took a bar exam, here's the wholly hypothetical scenario I used at last week's excellent multidiscliplinary workshop on road…
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Self-Driving Cars: Coming Soon to a Highway Near You
“We have moved to cars that have millions of lines of code and advanced systems that will think about where you want to go and will change the brakes and steeri…
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Stanford Students: Fall 2012 Course on the Law of Autonomous Driving
Nantucket responded to the introduction of motor vehicles by banning them. And this is how the town's mail carrier responded to that ban: A century later,…
Safety Is Big Concern for Autonomous Cars
Researchers are hard at work to make sure that autonomous cars will be safe. In doing so, a wealth of technology is making its way into today's vehicles. C…
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How will driverless cars affect liability and insurance?
“It’s accepted in our world that there will be a shift,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a legal fellow at Stanford University’s law school and engineering school who…
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Safety Is Big Concern for Autonomous Cars
Researchers are hard at work to make sure that autonomous cars will be safe. In doing so, a wealth of technology is making its way into today's vehicles. W…
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Ready for a self-driving car? Check your driveway.
"In the near term, we're likely to see increased driver assistance," says Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at the Center for Automotive Research at S…
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USA Today Poll Shows Americans Support Domestic Use of Drones in Some Circumstances
Still, critics like Ryan Calo, director of privacy at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Security, worry that the drones will replace the work of…
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No, You Can’t Use a Drone to Spy on Your Sexy Neighbor
What are the laws against drones—and their masters—behaving badly? Turns out, there are few that explicitly address a future where people, companies, and police…