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NHTSA's Autopilot Claim That Tesla Touted Disputed in New Study
"“What I really took away was there wasn’t the kind of data submitted to NHTSA that would give an agency the kind of confidence to make the statement it di…
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Michigan leans on manufacturing history in bid to become a hub for autonomous vehicles
"“I think a lot of policymakers [here] recognize that they don’t just want to be manufacturers [anymore],” University of South Carolina law professor Bryan…
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Nine months after deadly crash, Uber is testing self-driving cars again in Pittsburgh
"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant law professor at the University of South Carolina, said, “Uber’s stock response to serious allegations of past issues in…
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Uber report looks to rebuild goodwill with regulators
"“A person died because Uber was testing its vehicles under circumstances that appear to be irresponsible at best,” said Bryant Walker Smith, assistant pro…
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Uber wants to resume self-driving car tests on public roads
"Although the report covered all the main bases, Uber should have gone even further given its self-driving car killed Herzberg, said Bryant Walker Smith, a…
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Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that moral choices are not universal
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, is sceptical that the Moral Machine survey will have any practical u…
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Survey Polls the World: Should a Self-Driving Car Save Passengers, or Kids in the Road?
"“The core problem, I think, is going to occur many times a day in the real world, just not in a crazy crash dilemma,” says Patrick Lin, a philosophy profe…
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Global preferences for who to save in self-driving car crashes revealed
"“What happens with autonomous vehicles may set the tone for other AI and robotics, since they’re the first to be integrated into society at scale,” Patric…
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In a crash, should self-driving cars save passengers or pedestrians? 2 million people weigh in
"“There is this gray space of decisions that are not wrong and not right,” said Patrick Lin, a philosopher at the California Polytechnic State University w…
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Massachusetts Welcomes Self-Driving Cars—With a Couple Caveats
"“I'm really pleased to see the coordination with and among cities,” says Bryant Walker Smith, who studies autonomous vehicle legislation at the Univer…
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Americans Can't Have Audi's Super Capable Self-Driving System
"“I think law gets blamed too often,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a legal scholar with the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies self-drivin…
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How do you define “safe driving” in terms a machine can understand?
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies driverless-car regulations, similarly welcomes the proposals from Mob…