"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor who studies driverless cars at the University of South Carolina, said the difficulty with a system like Tesla’s is that it’s in the “mushy middle” of automation.
“Companies like Google looked at human-machine interaction and got kind of nervous,” Smith said. “They saw the likelihood of misuse and abuse, and decided those weren’t systems they were comfortable deploying.”
Smith added, “The public shapes the environment in which regulators act. That will be a key focus for Google in the months ahead: determining ideal legal regimes at a federal and state level, and then deciding if any changes are necessary to existing regulations.”"
- Date Published:07/11/2016
- Original Publication:Bloomberg Law