"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina, went a bit further in depth with his advice.
“The details matter but the broader social context determines how many of those details will be interpreted,” Smith said. “So states need to begin by closely auditing their existing laws, identifying all of the potential obstacles and impediments to particular technologies, in consultation with the developers, who should be doing the same thing.
“But in addition to that detailed approach, rather than the superficial approach we’ve sometimes seen from state legislatures with respect to automated vehicles and other technologies, both the public sector and the private sector needs to build a public safety case for these technologies,” he continued. “Start talking about what ‘safety’ means, how that safety will be measured, and how that safety will be monitored for the lifetime of the systems.”"