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Uber Self-Driving Car in Crash Wasn't Programmed to Brake
""That seems like a serious design omission," Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina’s School of Law, who studies a…
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Uber sets safety review; media report says software cited in fatal crash
"Bryant Walker Smith, a self-driving car expert and law professor at the University of South Carolina, said in an email that the report by The Information…
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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…
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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…
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Arizona police release video of fatal collision with Uber self-driving SUV
"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…
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'Uber should be shut down': friends of self-driving car crash victim seek justice
"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…
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Uber’s transparency is key to making self-driving cars safer
""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…
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Uber 'Surprised' by Totally Unsurprising Pennsylvania Data Breach Lawsuit
""Given the alleged facts in this case, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see more lawsuits," says Woodrow Hartzog, a law and computer scienc…
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Why Uber and Google Went to War Over Almost Nothing
"“There were lots of overlaps and informal sharing and all kinds of personalities early on,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at Stanford who spec…
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Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark
"“Obstruction of justice definitions vary widely by country,” says Ryan Calo, a cyberlaw professor at the University of Washington. “What’s clear is that U…