"Ryan Calo, an expert on robotics law at the University of Washington, is skeptical that it’s possible to translate the so-far theoretical ethical discussi…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, tells Inverse that each of those vehicle types has its own set of rule…
""Singapore's government has been an early and enthusiastic supporter of automated driving, especially as a way of improving urban mobility,"…
"In Uber’s Pittsburgh experiment, two company employees (a driver and an engineer) will ride in each car along with passengers, who must first agree to tak…
"Uber's move to carry people with autonomous vehicles is not surprising, given the company's history of pushing into gray areas where there is litt…
"“If you simply want an exemption, if you want to get around a law of general application, then show the government why that is justified," Smith said…
"“There is a tendency of people to take one ride in one of these vehicles and then conclude that because they have not crashed over the course of 10 minute…
"And, as Bryant Walker Smith of the University of South Carolina School of Law points out, police will still be in charge of stepping in during altercation…
"In that regard, the liability system won’t have to change much to adapt to self-driving cars, says Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor of the School…
""Focusing the public's attention on these hypotheticals also distracts from far more pressing ethical issues," Bryant Walker Smith, an assis…
"Patrick Lin, the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, says we humans are a fickle lot, and that we…
“With Go or chess or Space Invaders, the goal is to win, and we know what winning looks like,” says Lin. “But in ethical decision-making, there is no clear goal…