"“It’s a tenuous stretch of that provision to say that it also covers autonomous vehicle reports,” says Bryant Walker-Smith, a lawyer with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. “I suspect this is a policy decision made within the DMV or perhaps by others within government that they do not want to expose companies to this kind of public scrutiny, or they want to encourage candor that might otherwise by stymied.”"
"“The public has a right to understand what some of the risks are,” says Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington who teaches a class on Robotic Law and Policy. “While I can see the reasons for holding back information about private parties, the whole point of a public records request is to make sure that citizens gain access to information that could affect their lives.”"
- Date Published:05/12/2015
- Original Publication:Quartz