Stanford CIS

Some lawmakers see sci-fi future in self-driving cars

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"“There’s a real tension between fostering innovation ... and on the other hand protecting public safety,” said Bryant Walker Smith, who teaches and studies the legal aspects of automation at Stanford University. “Thirty thousand people die on U.S. roads every year, largely through human error, but you can imagine the consequences of an errant robot, both in terms of lives and the technologies involved.”"

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