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Detroit’s Grand Plan to Lead the Self-Driving Revolution
"“These bills are a mixed bag,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an expert in autonomous vehicles at the University of South Carolina School of Law and the Center…
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Who's Responsible When a Self-Driving Car Crashes?
"Features such as Pilot Assist exist in what tech policy expert and University of South Carolina assistant professor Bryant Walker Smith calls the “mushy m…
How Governments Can Clear the Road for Self-Driving Cars
So you've decided that your state should have self-driving cars. How, then, do you catch the attention of the Googles, Volvos and Navyas of the world that a…
Viewing the Road Ahead for Self-Driving Cars
This week, General Motors announced that it would pour $500 million into the ride-sharing service Lyft, with an aim of eventually producing a fleet of self-driv…
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Here's why lawyers are 'salivating' over self-driving cars
"“If you have to be hit by a car, then you should hope that you're hit by an automated car because you will likely have recourse to a company or compan…
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What Happens If Two Driverless Cars Crash? Lawyers Drool
"“No one wants to be sued or be arrested for a crash that they were powerless to prevent,” said Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor of law at the Univ…
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California’s New Self-Driving Car Rules Are Great for Texas
"“California’s proposed rules are great news for Texas,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law…
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Eye on Safety, California Sets Rules for Self-Driving Cars
""This points to a very long slog ahead for not just Google, but really other automakers as well," said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at t…
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Google’s Plan for Self-Driving Cars Means It Will Have to Compete With Uber
"“Eventually, Google’s driverless vehicles will compete with not just Uber and taxis, but also FedEx, Amazon, Seamless, transit operators and the very noti…
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Uber's hiring plans show outlines of self-driving car project
"The inclusion of “vendor interactions and supplier management” for manufacturing engineers might suggest Uber is looking to develop a system advanced enou…
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Will You Need a New License to Operate a Self-Driving Car?
"“Today, drivers are not trained or tested for that change in control,” says Patrick Lin, director of the ethics and emerging sciences group at California…
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Why Government Doesn’t Get Tech
"Ryan Calo, who teaches law at the University of Washington, worries about a lack of government resources. “There isn’t enough technical expertise in gover…