"“Evidence and context comes into play,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a former transportation engineer who teaches technology and mobility law at the University of South Carolina Law School and is an advisor to the Transportation Dept. on automation. Are there going to be memos explaining how engineers designed the software to get around federal testing procedures? As opposed to a design decision that generates inconsistent results?
Simply making a mistake or a design oversight generally doesn’t draw prosecutors’ attention,” said Smith. “Recklessness, lying, covering it up – it’s that evidence of intentional action that’s really going to draw their attention.”"
- Date Published:01/14/2017
- Original Publication:Forbes