Stanford CIS

Driverless cars: Is the state’s approach best?

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"DMW officials say they want to strike a balance between safety and encouraging a promising technology. They won applause from some corners. But Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who is an authority on the legal issues involved with self-driving cars, told Associated Press that California’s rules point “to a very long slog ahead for not just Google, but really other automakers as well.”

Smith believes California is “leading in the wrong direction,” given the impressive safety results seen so far in tests of driverless cars."

Published in: Press , Autonomous Driving , Robotics