Stanford CIS

When Driverless Cars Break the Law

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"“Criminal law is going to be looking for a guilty mind, a particular mental state — should this person have known better?” Mr. Calo said.

“If you’re not driving the car, it’s going to be difficult.”" “It’s the one headline, ‘machine kills child,’ rather than the 30,000 obituaries we have every year from humans killed on the roads,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Automotive Research."

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