"One self-driving car expert, Bryant Walker Smith, said his first impression was of “outrage” viewing the video. “Although this video isn’t the full pictu…
"“What we see in today’s sad news is another example of tech experimentation outpacing thoughtful regulation,” Elizabeth Joh, a U.C. Davis law professor wh…
"If her family were to pursue a civil case, attorneys could potentially make a range of negligence claims, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor…
""On average there's a fatality about once every 100 million miles in the US, so while this incident is not statistically determinative, it is unc…
"Patrick Lin, philosophy professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, is one of the few philosophers who’s examining the ethics of self-driving cars outside the…
"“[Autonomous police cars] could also reduce opportunities for valuable educational or investigatory interactions between police and the public,” Smith say…
""It breaks down to balancing the need to make money today versus making money tomorrow," said Bryant Walker Smith, an associate professor at the…
"“Self-driving cars may enable new crimes that we can’t even imagine today,” said Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at Californ…
"“These ethical problems are not just theoretical,” said Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State Un…
"“It was a political sign that there is fear” about the impact of the trucks, said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina…
"This could prove a problem for automakers as well as customers. “What you call something can be a kind of implicit promise that the feature is capable of…
""This new policy adjusts the tone but continues much of the substance of last year's document," according to Bryant Walker Smith, a law prof…