"However, scrambling to regulate the emerging industry at the federal or state level may not be the answer, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at Stanford Law School who specializes in autonomous driving.
“Regulators have somehow focused on the wrong questions by putting attention on superficial laws,” Smith said.
Smith said governments should instead be looking at broader issues, including the economic consequences of eliminating commercial driving jobs and how self-driving cars will share the road with non-autonomous vehicles.
But, he said, much of that is contingent on what companies develop: “It’s hard to legislate a specific technology that doesn’t fully exist,” he said."
- Date Published:12/30/2016
- Original Publication:Future Structure