"“The bill itself is a reasonable step to reinforce existing law,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina and expert on self-driving cars.
But he objected to some of the rhetoric in Ting’s press statement. “I don’t see any basis for the allegation that ‘these companies have demonstrated remarkable negligence in their attempts to prioritize profit over public safety,’” Smith said in an email. “Many of the people involved in these projects care deeply about safety and are personally working toward greater automation for that reason. If every car in San Francisco were maintained and operated as carefully as these test vehicles (which, after all, are supervised by trained drivers), then the roads would likely be safer than they are today.”"
- Date Published:01/05/2017
- Original Publication:San Francisco Chronicle