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Uber crash sparks talk of tighter rules for self-driving cars
"But autonomous vehicles contain both the car and the driver in one robot package. “That blurs the lines between those state-federal responsibilities,” sai…
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Tesla Driver Died Using Autopilot, With Hands Off Steering Wheel
"“This is another potential illustration of the mushy middle of automation,” Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies…
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Waymo starts to eclipse Uber in race to self-driving taxis
"“GM is very determined,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies autonomous vehicles. “It’s c…
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Uber settles self-driving car crash case with victim’s family
"Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina school of law, who writes regularly on autonomous driving matters, said he wa…
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Uber Isolated by Partners and Competitors in Aftermath of Crash
"The self-driving vehicle community has long discussed the potential dangers of a "Hindenberg" for self-driving vehicles, Bryant Walker Smith, a…
The Courts Can Handle the Deadly Uber Self-Driving Car Crash
This article is adapted from a forthcoming peer-reviewed essay in Volume 61 of the Communications of the ACM. The pedestrian who was struck and killed by a sel…
How Self-Driving Car Policy Will Determine Life, Death and Everything In-Between
Self-driving cars are here. More are on their way. Major automakers and Silicon Valley giants are clamoring to develop and release fully autonomous cars to safe…
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The role of humans in self-driving cars is even more complicated after Uber's fatal crash
"“On two separate occasions, the driver seems to be looking down at something for nearly five seconds,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a leading legal expert in…
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Experts say self-driving Uber should've spotted pedestrian in deadly crash
""The victim did not come out of nowhere. She's moving on a dark road, but it's an open road, so Lidar and radar should have detected and clas…
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Uber crash shows 'catastrophic failure' of self-driving technology, experts say
"“I really don’t understand why Lidar didn’t pick this up,” said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor and self-driving expert. “This video d…
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Police release video of Uber fatal collision
"But Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington’s law school, who writes regularly on robotics and cyber law, said in a tweet: “I watched the v…
Who’s at Fault in Uber’s Fatal Collision?
This is a guest post. The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Uber’s ac…