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Navigating the roadblocks
"“For the trucking industry, the risk is magnified: we’re no longer talking about two-tonne vehicles of steel and glass, but up to 40-tonne vehicles that m…
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Driven To Gridlock: Driverless Cars
There’s a lot of talk about autonomous control vehicles, or cars that drive themselves. Charles Feldman talked with Stanford Law School expert Bryant Walker Smi…
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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Backseat Driving
Nevada. Florida. Hawaii. Arizona. Oklahoma. As legislators move to expressly regulate automated driving, I’ll be tracking state-by-state developments on this wi…
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Arizona and Oklahoma Legislators Introduce Autonomous Driving Bills
And now both Arizona (with the introduction of HB 2679) and skyoneering Oklahoma (with the introduction of HB 3007).…
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Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here
Ryan Calo is quoted by Tom Vanderbilt, author of the New York Times bestseller Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (And What It Says About Us), in the cover sto…
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Hawaii Legislators Introduce Autonomous Driving Bill
Six state representatives in Hawaii have introduced a bill (HB 2238) that would direct that state's "director of transportation, in consultation with t…
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More State Developments on Autonomous Vehicles
Nevada's Department of Motor Vehicles has continued its rulemaking process for autonomous vehicles by announcing a public hearing on its draft regulations.…
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Nevada Releases Updated Draft Autonomous Driving Regulations and Announces Public Workshops
Nevada's rulemaking process for autonomous driving continues. For the latest version of the draft regulations and information about public workshops in Dece…
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Nevada Releases Draft Autonomous Driving Regulations
In June, CIS reported Nevada's enactment of AB 511, which directs the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to "adopt regulations authorizing…