"However, Bryant Walker Smith, a risk, technology and mobility expert at Stanford University and assistant professor in both law and engineering at the University of South Carolina, suggested that the accident doesn't mean much in the overall debate over self-driving cars.
"I'm no more or less optimistic about the technology or the rate of deployment after this crash," Smith said. "It is simply something that was going to happen eventually and doesn't change my sense that the technology has not yet been demonstrated to be ready over a wide range of conditions.""
- Date Published:03/01/2016
- Original Publication:San Jose Mercury News