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== Model Laws ==
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'''Selected works by [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/bws Bryant Walker Smith]'''
# '''[[Model State Automated Driving Law]]'''. This draft is intended to accommodate automated driving within existing state law (particularly with respect to registration, licensing, and operation).
 
# '''[[Model Federal Automated Driving Law]]'''. This draft is intended to accommodate automated driving within existing federal law (particularly with respect to certification and exemption).
 
# [https://newlypossible.org/files/posters/BryantWalkerSmith_ModelAutomatedDrivingLaws_2017.pdf '''Poster of the Model Automated Driving Laws''']. This poster summarizes both the state and federal model laws as of July 2017.
 
  
== Scholarly Articles ==
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== Articles ==
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# '''[https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/04/academic-vision-ai-ethics An Academic Vision for AI Ethics]'''. This brief solicited statement from 2022 describes how universities might approach the ethics of artificial intelligence.
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# '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4227719 DALL-E Does Palsgraf]''', 14 Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet 82 (2023). This article asks a leading artificial intelligence (AI) tool for image generation to illustrate the facts of a leading law school case. It introduces machine learning generally, summarizes the seminal case of Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad, presents the images that the tool created based on the facts as the majority and dissent recount them, and then translates this exercise into lessons for how lawyers and the law should think about AI.
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# '''[https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-05/ECE-TRANS-WP.1-GE.3-2022-inf.2%20e_2.pdf Initial Thoughts on "road safety challenges posed by the use of automated vehicles in traffic that an international legal instrument could adequately address"]''' (May 2022). This paper, prepared for an ongoing drafting effort within the UN's Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety, highlights issues raised by the potential international character of automated driving.
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# '''[https://www.pnas.org/content/118/11/e2010202118 From Driverless Dilemmas to More Practical Commonsense Tests for Automated Vehicles]''', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (March 16, 2021) (with Julian De Freitas, Andrea Censi, Luigi Di Lillo, Sam E. Anthony, and Emilio Frazzoli). This article sketches a pragmatic framework for testing common sense as an integral part of assessing the safety of an automated driving system. Behavior that is safe, predictable, reasonable, uniform, comfortable, and explainable (SPRUCE) can suggest common sense.
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# '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3747036 How Reporters Can Evaluate Automated Driving Announcements]''', 2020 Journal of Law and Mobility 1 (2020). This article identifies a series of specific questions that reporters, academics, policymakers, and others can ask about claims made by developers of automated motor vehicles to facilitate a more critical, credible, and ultimately constructive understanding of the progress toward automated driving.
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# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=3463827 Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Transport]''', in [https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067397.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190067397-e-42 The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2020)]. This chapter uses the example of automated driving to highlight key ethical issues in the use of artificial intelligence in transport, including: the tension between technological solutions and policy solutions; the consequences of safety expectations; the complex choice between human authority and computer authority; and power dynamics among individuals, governments, and companies. It begins with the foundational relationship between ethics and transport more generally and concludes with a focus on the trustworthiness of the companies developing and deploying advanced technologies.
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# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=3747050 New Technologies and Old Treaties]''', 114 American Journal of International Law Unbound 152–157 (2020), also available [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/new-technologies-and-old-treaties/C0903CDB5BA3C19D3E9A44FE7473DD7A here]. This essay presents the concrete case of automated driving as an opportunity to examine international law’s role in a world that artificial intelligence is helping to rapidly change. It introduces the road traffic conventions, identifies competing interpretations of their core driver requirements, and highlights ongoing efforts at the Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety to reach a consensus.
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# '''[https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/djcil/vol30/iss1/4 It’s Not the Robot’s Fault! Russian and American Perspectives on Responsibility for Robot Harms]''' (with Andrey Neznamov), 30 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 143-163 (2019), published in Russian in [https://igzakon.ru/magazine/article?id=7812 Zakon ("Law") (May 2019)]. In this article, two legal scholars—one from Russia and one from the United States—draw on the law of both countries to propose an integrated approach for civil liability for harms from automated vehicles, personal robots, and other cyberphysical systems.
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# '''[https://www.uniformlaws.org/committees/community-home?CommunityKey=4e70cf8e-a3f4-4c55-9d27-fb3e2ab241d6 Issues Memos and Drafts for the ULC Uniform Automated Operation of Vehicles Act]''' (2019), including the [https://www.uniformlaws.org/viewdocument/final-act-29?CommunityKey=4e70cf8e-a3f4-4c55-9d27-fb3e2ab241d6&tab=librarydocuments final act with comments] and the [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3747058 drafting memoranda]. These materials provide background on remote facilitation of the driving task (including but not limited to teleoperation), level 3 automation, following distance requirements, and the definition of a driver during automated operation, among other topics.
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# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=2923240 Automated Driving and Product Liability]''', 2017 Michigan State Law Review 1 (2016). This article focuses on one cyberphysical domain — automated driving — to methodically analyze the so-called liability problem. It considers how automated driving could affect product liability, how product liability could affect automated driving, and how each could advance or impede the prevention of injury and the compensation of victims. It concludes that the current product liability regime, while imperfect, is probably compatible with the adoption of automated driving systems.
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# '''[https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/10/24/silicon-valley-goes-to-washington/government-assessment-of-innovation-shouldnt-differ-for-tech-companies Government Assessment of Innovation Shouldn't Differ for Tech Companies]''', New York Times, October 24, 2016. This short piece argues that, while legislators and regulators cannot have all the answers, they must get better at asking the key questions.
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# '''[https://www.govtech.com/fs/How-Can-Government-Officials-Clear-the-Road-for-Self-Driving-Cars.html How Can Government Officials Clear the Road for Self-Driving Cars?]''', Governing, April 8, 2016. This short piece summarizes key public policy recommendations.
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# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=2749375 How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving]''', 2017 New Mexico Law Review 1 (2016). This article presents nearly 50 steps that governments at all levels can take now to encourage the socially beneficial development, deployment, and use of automated road vehicles. It begins with technical and policy overviews and concludes with a call to facilitate automated driving in part by expecting more from today’s drivers and vehicles.
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# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=2983000 The Trolley and the Pinto: Cost-Benefit Analysis in Automated Driving and Other Cyber-Physical Systems]''', 4 Texas A&M Law Review 197 (2017). This article describes how interest in automated driving has brought new fame to a classic philosophical thought experiment (the “trolley problem”), critiques how this thought experiment has been applied in that context, proposes a more practical extension of that experiment based on risk rather than harm, notes that this extension may still involve programming value judgments, argues with reference to the Ford Pinto debacle that these judgments could inflame juries or the public at large, and emphasizes the need for appropriately focused public discussion of these issues.
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# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=2908973 Controlling Humans and Machines]''', 30 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 167 (2016). This article considers the “meaningful human control” of lethal weapons. Rather than focus on the role that a human should play in an otherwise automated weapon system, it reverses these human and machine roles to consider automated systems that limit human-initiated lethal force. After discussing the concept of control generally, it argues that a bias toward human authority could unduly preserve that authority and that the line between automated systems that initiate lethal force and automated systems that restrict that force is not clear.
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# '''[https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/legal-considerations-shared-automated-driving.pdf Select Legal Considerations for Shared Automated Driving]''' (2016). This discussion paper introduces several legal considerations and policy recommendations for shared automated driving with a view toward grounding a broader policy discussion.
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# '''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40503-2_5 Automated Driving Policy]''' (book chapter), in Lecture Notes in Mobility: Road Vehicle Automation 3 (2016). This chapter summarizes a longer policy paper, How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving, which details steps that state and local governments can take now to encourage the responsible development, deployment, and use of automated road vehicles.
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# '''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-45854-9_27 Regulation and the Risk of Inaction]''' (book chapter), in Autonomes Fahren (2015). This chapter first considers the nature of risk, the nature of regulation, and the challenge of regulating, in a broad sense, the increasing automation of motor vehicles. It then introduces four pairs of strategies to respond to this challenge: Ensure sufficient compensation for those who are injured, force information-sharing by the private sector to enhance regulation, simplify both the technical and the regulatory challenges in coordination, and raise the playing field for conventional actors along with automated systems.
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# '''[https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781783476725.00011.xml Lawyers and Engineers Should Speak the Same Robot Language]''' (book chapter), in Robot Law (2015), summarized in [78576a33e081/UploadedImages/documents/pdfs/Posters/BryantWalkerSmith_FirstTRB2014Poster.pdf this poster]. This book chapter explains the importance of systems, language, use, and users—concepts familiar to both law and engineering—in the development and regulation of robots.
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# '''[https://www.popsci.com/whos-responsible-when-self-driving-car-crashes Bryant Walker Smith on the Future of Self-Driving Cars]''', Popular Science, June 2015. "People ask me, ‘Are you concerned about self-driving cars?’ And I say, ‘Yes, but I’m terrified of today’s cars.’"
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# '''[https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/transport/automated-and-autonomous-driving_5jlwvzdfk640-en Automated and Autonomous Driving: Regulation under Uncertainty]''', Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2015) (with Joakim Svensson) (principal contributing authors). This report explores strategic issues to be considered by policymakers in anticipation of automated vehicles.
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# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=2336234 Proximity-Driven Liability]''', 102 Georgetown Law Journal 1777 (2014). This paper argues that commercial sellers’ growing information about, access to, and control over their products, product users, and product uses could significantly expand their point-of-sale and post-sale obligations toward people endangered by these products. It first describes how companies are embracing new technologies that expand their information, access, and control, with primary reference to the increasingly automated and connected motor vehicle. It next analyzes how this proximity to product, user, and use could impact product-related claims. It finally flips the analysis to consider how the uncertainty caused in part by changing liability could drive companies to further embrace this proximity.
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# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=2459164 A Legal Perspective on Three Misconceptions in Vehicle Automation]''' (book chapter), in Lecture Notes in Mobility: Road Vehicle Automation (2014). This chapter addresses three commonly misunderstood aspects of vehicle automation: capability, deployment, and connectivity. For each, it identifies a myth pervading public discussion, provides a contradictory view common among experts, explains why that expert view is itself incomplete, and discusses the legal implications of this nuance. These three aspects suggest a shift in transportation from a product model to a service model.
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# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=2303904 Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States]''', 1 Texas A&M Law Review 411 (2014) (originally published as white paper in 2012). This foundational article provides the most comprehensive discussion to date of whether automated vehicles can be lawfully sold and used on public roads in the United States. The short answer is that computer direction of a motor vehicle’s steering, braking, and accelerating without real-time human supervision is probably legal. The long answer, contained in the very long article, provides a foundation for tailoring regulations and understanding liability issues related to these vehicles.
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# '''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6cj0BgAAQBAJ Rahmenbedingungen für die Fahrerassistenzentwicklung]''' (book chapter), in Handbuch Fahrerassistenzsysteme 3. Auflage (2014) (with Tom Michael Gasser and Andre Seeck).  This chapter describes legal principles and conditions for the development of advanced driver assistance systems.
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# '''[https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews292.pdf Automated Vehicle Technology: Ten Research Areas to Follow in 2014]''', TR News, issue 292 (May-June 2014) (with Bob Denaro, Johanna Zmud, Steven Shladover, and Jane Lappin). This article captures key insights from the major automated driving research conference that the five authors organized at Stanford University.
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# '''[https://www.h3bconnected.com/thinkinghighways Automated Vehicles: Language, Legality, and Liability]''', Thinking Highways, October 2012 (with Tom Michael Gasser). This article, written with a government lawyer in Germany, sketches an early vision for defining automated driving, assessing its legal status, and understanding its implications for civil liability.
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# '''[https://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2012/12/laws_for_driverless_cars_who_is_responsible_for_crashes_and_traffic_violations.html Who Is the Driver?]''', New Scientist, December 22, 2012, syndicated as How Do You Ticket a Driverless Car?, Slate, December 30, 2012. This short article, written before automated driving captured broad attention, previews key legal questions raised by increasing vehicle automation.
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# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=2303907 Managing Autonomous Transportation Demand]''', 52 Santa Clara Law Review 1401 (2012), excerpted as Tomorrow’s World, Traffic Tech. Int’l, April-May 2013, at 4-10. This article argues that automation could significantly increase motor vehicle travel and that this increase could have important consequences for the physical and legal infrastructures in which tomorrow’s vehicles will operate. It discusses four key traffic engineering concepts, explains why automation could increase vehicle-miles traveled and shows how this increase could undermine some of the claims made about reducing congestion and emissions, identifies the potential effects of increased VMT on land use and argues that the law can help manage these effects by better internalizing the costs and benefits of motor vehicle travel, and offers preliminary recommendations.
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# '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1695090 Water as a Public Good: The Status of Water under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]''', 17 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 291 (2009). This article argues that water is not a “product” subject to the World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), because the established, widespread, and consistent assertion by states of public ownership over their water resources through both municipal and international law (the “public-ownership consensus”) precludes any reading of GATT that would fundamentally alter the unique status of those resources.
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# '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1695089 Stakeholder Reaction to Emissions Trading in the United States, the European Union, and the Netherlands]''', 25 Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law 137 (2009). As a contribution to the debate over market-based environmental regulation, this article examines the reaction of stakeholders to cap-and-trade programs proposed or implemented in the United States, the European Union, and the Netherlands for industrial emissions of certain pollutants.
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# '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1694193 Meaningful Participation in a Global Climate Regime]''', 39 Environmental Law Reporter: News and Analysis 10881 (2009). This article argues that an effective climate regime must be global rather than merely international and must recognize the significant involvement of actors other than states. It first examines the role of statism in the existing international climate regime and challenges assumptions that underlie the demand for the global South’s "meaningful participation" in that regime. It demonstrates how the global South is already participating in a global climate regime through the activities of private economic actors from around the world, and it proposes approaches for reconciling these two important regimes.
  
# '''Automated Driving and Product Liability''', 2017 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1 (2016), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2923240. This article focuses on one cyberphysical domain — automated driving — to methodically analyze the so-called liability problem. It considers how automated driving could affect product liability, how product liability could affect automated driving, and how each could advance or impede the prevention of injury and the compensation of victims. The article concludes that the current product liability regime, while imperfect, is probably compatible with the adoption of automated driving systems. These systems, when introduced, are likely to be substantially safer than human-driven vehicles. Because driving decisions will shift from human drivers to automated systems (and their designers), a larger share of the crashes that nonetheless occur will implicate product liability law. This means that, in comparison to the automotive industry today, the automated driving industry will likely bear a bigger slice of a smaller pie of total crash costs. Under conservative assumptions, these costs are large—but not extraordinarily so.
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== Key Resources ==
# '''The Trolley and the Pinto: Cost-Benefit Analysis in Automated Driving and Other Cyber-Physical Systems''', Tex. A&M L. Rev. (forthcoming 2017), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2983000. Automated driving has attracted substantial public and scholarly attention. This brief Article describes how that attention has brought new fame to a classic philosophical thought experiment (the “trolley problem”), critiques how this thought experiment has been applied in that context, proposes a more practical extension of that experiment based on risk rather than harm, notes that this extension may still involve programming value judgments, argues with reference to the Ford Pinto debacle that these judgments could inflame juries or the public at large, and emphasizes the need for appropriately focused public discussion of these issues. The article may be especially relevant to developers and regulators of cyber-physical systems, including the automated driving systems that operate self-driving vehicles.
 
# '''Controlling Humans and Machines''', 30 Temple Int'l. & Comp. L.J. 167 (2016), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2908973. This article considers the "meaningful human control" of lethal weapons. However, unlike others on this topic, this article does not focus on the role that a human should play in an otherwise automated weapon system. Rather, it reverses these human and machine roles to consider automated systems that limit human-initiated lethal force. After discussing the concept of control generally, this piece argues, first, that a bias toward human authority could impede eventual restrictions on that authority and, second, that the line between automated systems that initiate lethal force and automated systems that restrict that force is potentially unclear.
 
# '''Select Legal Considerations for Shared Automated Driving''' (2016), https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/legal-considerations-shared-automated-driving.pdf. This discussion paper introduces several legal considerations for shared automated driving with a view toward grounding a broader policy discussion. It begins by discussing likely implementations of shared automated driving. It next considers the kinds of legal actions that developers and regulators of these automated driving systems might take to promote or police them. It then connects these potential actions to existing law by describing three ways of adapting that law to automated driving. Finally, it provides specific perspectives and recommendations on this and any legal change.
 
# '''How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving''' (2016), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2749375. This article presents nearly 50 steps that governments at all levels can take now to encourage the socially beneficial development, deployment, and use of automated road vehicles (so-called driverless, self-driving, or autonomous vehicles). After providing technical and legal context (including three pathways toward fully automated driving), it describes key administrative, legal, and community strategies. It concludes by urging policymakers to facilitate automated driving in part by expecting more from today’s drivers and vehicles.
 
# '''Automated Driving Policy''' (book chapter), in Lecture Notes in Mobility: Road Vehicle Automation 3 (2016), https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40503-2_5. This chapter summarizes a longer policy paper, How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving, which details steps that state and local governments can take now to encourage the development, deployment, and use of automated road vehicles. The chapter has four main parts. Context emphasizes the need to think broadly about relevant technologies, impacts, and laws. Administrative Strategies identifies steps that governments can take in the course of their ordinary operations. Legal Strategies recommends a careful legal audit and provides guidance on the legal changes or clarifications that may flow from such an audit. Community Strategies focuses on ways that communities can prepare for and even attract truly driverless systems that are responsive to local needs and opportunities.
 
# '''Regulation and the Risk of Inaction''' (book chapter), in Autonomes Fahren (2015), http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-45854-9_27. This chapter first considers the nature of risk, the nature of regulation, and the challenge of regulating – in a broad sense – the increasing automation of motor vehicles. It then introduces four pairs of potential strategies to respond to this challenge: Ensure sufficient compensation for those who are injured (by expanding public insurance and facilitating private insurance), force information-sharing by the private sector to enhance regulation (by privileging the concrete and delegating the safety case), simplify both the technical and the regulatory challenges in coordination (by limiting the duration of risk and excluding the extreme), and raise the playing field for conventional actors along with automated systems (by rejecting the status quo and embracing enterprise liability).
 
# '''Lawyers and Engineers Should Speak the Same Robot Language''' (book chapter), in Robot Law (2015), http://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781783476725.00011.xml -- see also [http://www.aamva.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=6316&libID=6290 this draft] or [https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AUVSI/c2a3ac12-b178-4f9c-a654-78576a33e081/UploadedImages/documents/pdfs/Posters/BryantWalkerSmith_FirstTRB2014Poster.pdf this poster]. Engineering and law have much in common. Both require careful assessment of system boundaries to compare costs with benefits and to identify causal relationships. Both engage similar concepts and similar terms, although some of these are the monoglot equivalent of a false friend. Both are ultimately concerned with the actual use of the products that they create or regulate. And both recognize that the use depends in large part on the human user. This book chapter emphasizes the importance of these four concepts -- systems, language, use, and users -- to the development and regulation of robots. Although the chapter applies broadly to robotics, motor vehicle automation provides the primary example.
 
# '''Proximity-Driven Liability''', 102 Georgetown L.J. 1777 (2014), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2336234. Commercial sellers’ growing information about, access to, and control over their products, product users, and product uses could significantly expand their point-of-sale and post-sale obligations toward people endangered by these products. The paper first describes how companies are embracing new technologies that expand their information, access, and control, with primary reference to the increasingly automated and connected motor vehicle. It next analyzes how this proximity to product, user, and use could impact product-related claims for breach of implied warranty, defect in design or information, post-sale failure to warn or update, and negligent enabling of a third-party’s tortious behavior. It finally flips the analysis to consider how the uncertainty caused in part by changing liability could actually drive companies to further embrace this proximity. This article is particularly relevant to the Internet of Things, including recent controversies about deactivation of purchased devices and the right to repair.
 
# '''A Legal Perspective on Three Misconceptions in Vehicle Automation''' (book chapter), in Lecture Notes in Mobility: Road Vehicle Automation (2014), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2459164. This chapter addresses three commonly misunderstood aspects of vehicle automation: capability, deployment, and connectivity. For each, it identifies a myth pervading public discussion, provides a contradictory view common among experts, explain why that expert view is itself incomplete, and finally discuss the legal implications of this nuance. Although there are many more aspects that merit clarification, these three are linked because they suggest a shift in transportation from a product model to a service model, a point with which the chapter concludes.
 
# '''Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States''', 1 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 411 (2014) (originally published as white paper in 2012), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2303904. This foundational article (originally published in 2012) provides the most comprehensive discussion to date of whether so-called automated, autonomous, self-driving, or driverless vehicles can be lawfully sold and used on public roads in the United States. The short answer is that the computer direction of a motor vehicle’s steering, braking, and accelerating without real-time human input is probably legal. The long answer, contained in the article, provides a foundation for tailoring regulations and understanding liability issues related to these vehicles.
 
# '''Managing Autonomous Transportation Demand''', 52 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1401 (2012), excerpted as Tomorrow’s World, Traffic Tech. Int’l, April-May 2013, at 4-10, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2303907. This article argues that automation could significantly increase motor vehicle travel and that this increase could have important consequences for the physical and legal infrastructures in which tomorrow’s vehicles will operate. The article (1) discusses four key traffic engineering concepts: vehicle miles traveled (VMT), capacity, demand, and the time-cost of travel; (2) explains why automation could increase VMT and then shows how this increase could undermine some of the claims made with respect to congestion and emissions; (3) identifies the potential effects of increased VMT on rural and urban land use and argues that the law can help manage these effects by better internalizing the costs and benefits of motor vehicle travel, and (4) offers preliminary recommendations.
 
  
== Joint Articles ==
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# Taxonomy of [[Law and Technology]]
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# Inclusive definition of [[Road traffic safety]]
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# [[Automated Driving Definitions]]
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# [https://www.uniformlaws.org/committees/community-home?communitykey=4e70cf8e-a3f4-4c55-9d27-fb3e2ab241d6&tab=groupdetails Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Law on the Automated Operation of Motor Vehicles]
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# [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3747036 Questions to Ask About AV Announcements]
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# [https://youtu.be/zDmYZX-6F28 Video Overview of Automated Driving]
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# [[The Trustworthy Company]]
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# [[Carolina House Rules]]
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# [https://twitter.com/bwalkersmith/status/1145723506581278720 Hierarchy of AI Fears]
  
# Bryant Walker Smith and Joakim Svensson (principal contributing authors), Automated and Autonomous Driving: Regulation under Uncertainty, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), May 2015, http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/pub/pdf/15CPB_AutonomousDriving.pdf
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== Blog Posts ==
# Tom Michael Gasser, Andre Seeck, and Bryant Walker Smith, Rahmenbedingungen für die Fahrerassistenzentwicklung (book chapter), in Handbuch Fahrerassistenzsysteme 3. Auflage (2014), https://books.google.com/books?id=6cj0BgAAQBAJ
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2024/02/over-air-updates-and-regulatory-recalls Over-the-air updates and regulatory recalls]
# Steven Shladover, Jane Lappin, Bob Denaro, and Bryant Walker Smith, Introduction: The Transportation Research Board’s 2013 Workshop on Road Vehicle Automation (book chapter), in Lecture Notes in Mobility: Road Vehicle Automation (2014), http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-05990-7_1
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2024/01/cruises-crash-and-quinns-report On Cruise's Crash (and Quinn's Report)]
#Bob Denaro, Johanna Zmud, Steven Shladover, Bryant Walker Smith, and Jane Lappin, Automated Vehicle Technology: Ten Research Areas to Follow in 2014, TR News, issue 292 (May-June 2014), http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews292.pdf
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/04/dall-e-does-palsgraf DALL-E Does Palsgraf]
# Bryant Walker Smith and Tom Michael Gasser, Automated Vehicles: Language, Legality, and Liability, Thinking Highways, October 2012
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/04/academic-vision-ai-ethics An Academic Vision for AI Ethics]
 
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/05/remote-driving On Remote Driving]
== Other Articles ==
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/01/deep-weeds-levels-driving-automation-lurks-ambiguous-minimal-risk-condition Deep in the Weeds of the Levels of Automation Lurks an Ambiguous Minimal Risk Condition]
 
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2021/12/californias-av-testing-rules-apply-teslas-fsd California's AV Testing Rules Apply to Tesla's "FSD"]
# Government Assessment of Innovation Shouldn't Differ for Tech Companies, NY Times, October 24, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/10/24/silicon-valley-goes-to-washington/government-assessment-of-innovation-shouldnt-differ-for-tech-companies
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2021/02/tracking-nhtsas-driverless-vehicle-rule Tracking NHTSA's "Driverless Vehicle" Rule]
# How Can Government Officials Clear the Road for Self-Driving Cars?, Governing, April 8, 2016, http://www.govtech.com/fs/How-Can-Government-Officials-Clear-the-Road-for-Self-Driving-Cars.html
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2018/04/teslas-fatal-crash Tesla's Fatal Crash]
# Bryant Walker Smith on the Future of Self-Driving Cars, Popular Science, June 2015, http://www.popsci.com/whos-responsible-when-self-driving-car-crashes
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2018/03/sad-irony-governor-ducey-after-ubers-fatal-crash A Sad Irony for Governor Ducy after Uber's Fatal Crash]
# Who Is the Driver?, New Scientist, December 22, 2012, syndicated as How Do You Ticket a Driverless Car?, Slate, December 30, 2012, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2012/12/laws_for_driverless_cars_who_is_responsible_for_crashes_and_traffic_violations.html
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2018/03/ubers-fatal-crash Uber's Fatal Crash]  
 
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2017/10/senate%E2%80%99s-automated-driving-bill-could-squash-state-authority The Senate's Automated Driving Bill Could Squash State Authority]
== Key Reference Documents ==
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2017/10/congress%E2%80%99s-automated-driving-bills-are-both-more-and-less-they-seem Congress's Automated Driving Bills Are Both More and Less Than They Seem]
 
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2017/02/legislative-shout-outs-georgia-and-virginia Legislative Shout Outs to Georgia and Virginia]
# [[Model Federal Automated Driving Law]]
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2016/12/uber-vs-law Uber vs. the Law]
# [[Model State Automated Driving Law]]
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2016/09/michigans-automated-driving-bills Michigan's Automated Driving Bills]
# Automated Driving: Legislative and Regulatory Action, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Automated_Driving:_Legislative_and_Regulatory_Action
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2016/01/new-years-resolutions-developers-automated-vehicles New Years Resolutions for Developers of Automated Vehicles]
# SAE Levels of Driving Automation, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/loda
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/05/tesla-and-liability Tesla and Liability]
 
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/05/automated-vehicle-crashes Automated Vehicle Crashes]
== Selected Blog Posts ==
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/01/slow-down-runaway-ethical-trolley Slow Down That Runaway Ethical Trolley]
 
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/06/new-book-road-vehicle-automation New Book: Road Vehicle Automation]
# Legislative Shout Outs to Georgia and Virginia, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2017/02/legislative-shout-outs-georgia-and-virginia
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/05/something-interesting-californias-new-automated-vehicle-testing-rule Something Interesting in California's New Automated Vehicle Testing Rule]
# Uber vs. the Law, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2016/12/uber-vs-law
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/12/human-error-cause-vehicle-crashes Human Error as a Cause of Vehicle Crashes]
# Michigan's Automated Driving Bills, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2016/09/michigans-automated-driving-bills
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/05/uncertain-liability Uncertain Liability]
# New Years Resolutions for Developers of Automated Vehicles, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2016/01/new-years-resolutions-developers-automated-vehicles
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/looking-my-vehicle-automation-entries-rear-view-mirror Looking at My Vehicle Automation Entries in the Rear-View Mirror]
# Tesla and Liability, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/05/tesla-and-liability
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/planning-obsolescence-technologies-not-yet-invented Planning for the Obsolescence of Technologies Not Yet Invented]
# Automated Vehicle Crashes, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/05/automated-vehicle-crashes
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/reasonable-self-driving-car The Reasonable Self-Driving Car]
# Slow Down That Runaway Ethical Trolley, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/01/slow-down-runaway-ethical-trolley
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/impact-automation-environmental-impact-statements The Impact of Automation on Environmental Impact Statements]
# New Book: Road Vehicle Automation, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/06/new-book-road-vehicle-automation
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/09/driverless-carts-are-coming-sooner-driverless-cars Driverless Carts Are Coming Sooner Than Driverless Cars]
# Something Interesting in California's New Automated Vehicle Testing Rule, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/05/something-interesting-californias-new-automated-vehicle-testing-rule
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/04/automated-vehicles-are-probably-legal-united-states Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States]
# Human Error as a Cause of Vehicle Crashes, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/12/human-error-cause-vehicle-crashes
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/07/self-driving-crash-test A Self-Driving Crash Test]
# Uncertain Liability, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/05/uncertain-liability
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/07/stanford-students-fall-2012-course-law-autonomous-driving Stanford Students: Fall 2012 Course on the Law of Autonomous Driving]
# Looking at My Vehicle Automation Entries in the Rear-View Mirror, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/looking-my-vehicle-automation-entries-rear-view-mirror
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/05/planning-autonomous-driving Planning for Autonomous Driving]
# Planning for the Obsolescence of Technologies Not Yet Invented, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/planning-obsolescence-technologies-not-yet-invented
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/03/blind-drivers-and-base-maps On Blind Drivers and Base Maps]
# The Reasonable Self-Driving Car, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/reasonable-self-driving-car
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/03/driving-perfection Driving at Perfection]
# The Impact of Automation on Environmental Impact Statements, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/impact-automation-environmental-impact-statements
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/02/my-other-car-robot-defining-vehicle-automation My Other Car Is a … Robot? Defining Vehicle Automation]
# Driverless Carts Are Coming Sooner Than Driverless Cars, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/09/driverless-carts-are-coming-sooner-driverless-cars
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/02/backseat-driving Backseat Driving]
# Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/04/automated-vehicles-are-probably-legal-united-states
 
# A Self-Driving Crash Test, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/07/self-driving-crash-test
 
# Stanford Students: Fall 2012 Course on the Law of Autonomous Driving, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/07/stanford-students-fall-2012-course-law-autonomous-driving
 
# Planning for Autonomous Driving, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/05/planning-autonomous-driving
 
# On Blind Drivers and Base Maps, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/03/blind-drivers-and-base-maps
 
# Driving at Perfection, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/03/driving-perfection
 
# My Other Car Is a … Robot? Defining Vehicle Automation, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/02/my-other-car-robot-defining-vehicle-automation
 
# Backseat Driving, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/02/backseat-driving
 
  
 
== Posters ==
 
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== Selected Slides ==
 
== Selected Slides ==
# [http://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2016-07-18_PublicSafetyCase.pdf The Public Safety Case (2016)]
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# [https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2016-07-18_PublicSafetyCase.pdf The Public Safety Case (2016)]
# [http://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2015-05-27_DevelopingDanger.pdf Developing Danger (2015)]
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# [https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2015-05-27_DevelopingDanger.pdf Developing Danger (2015)]
# [http://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2015-07-21_TRB-AUVSI_Regulation.pdf Regulating Automated Driving (2015)]
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# [https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2015-07-21_TRB-AUVSI_Regulation.pdf Regulating Automated Driving (2015)]
# [http://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2016-04-15_Macroliability.pdf Automated Driving Macroliability (2016)]
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# [https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2016-04-15_Macroliability.pdf Automated Driving Macroliability (2016)]
# [http://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2015-07-22_TRB-AUVSI_Liability.pdf Automated Driving Liability (2015)]
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# [https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2015-07-22_TRB-AUVSI_Liability.pdf Automated Driving Liability (2015)]
# [http://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2015-09-11_Ethical_Issues.pdf Ethical Issues in Automated Driving (2015)]
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# [https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2015-09-11_Ethical_Issues.pdf Ethical Issues in Automated Driving (2015)]
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# [https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2017-10-12_Blockchain.pdf Intro to Blockchain (2017)]
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# [https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2017-07-31_AerialTakings.pdf Aerial Takings (2017)]
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== Other Materials ==
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# [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/how-autonomous-driving-bill-becomes-law How an (Autonomous Driving) Bill Becomes Law: An Oral History of Nevada's Groundbreaking Regulation of Self-Driving Vehicles], November 8, 2012
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# Additional videos are available [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/bryant-walker-smith?qt-tabs_user_related=5#qt-tabs_user_related here] (Multimedia tab) and [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22bryant+walker+smith%22&tbm=vid here]
  
== Course Materials ==
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== Media Appearances ==
# [[Seminar on the Law of the Newly Possible]]
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# [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/bryant-walker-smith?qt-tabs_user_related=3#qt-tabs_user_related Center for Internet and Society index] (Select the "Press" tab at the bottom of my biography)
# [https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AUVSI/c2a3ac12-b178-4f9c-a654-78576a33e081/UploadedImages/documents/pdfs/Posters/BryantWalkerSmith_SecondTRB2014Poster.pdf Seminar on the Legal Aspects of Vehicle Automation (PDF)]
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# [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22bryant+walker+smith%22&tbm=nws Google index]
  
== Other Materials ==
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== Courses ==
# How an (Autonomous Driving) Bill Becomes Law: An Oral History of Nevada's Groundbreaking Regulation of Self-Driving Vehicles, November 8, 2012, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/how-autonomous-driving-bill-becomes-law
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See my [[courses]]
# Additional video is available under the multimedia tab [http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/bryant-walker-smith?qt-tabs_user_related=5#qt-tabs_user_related here]
 

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Selected works by Bryant Walker Smith

Articles

  1. An Academic Vision for AI Ethics. This brief solicited statement from 2022 describes how universities might approach the ethics of artificial intelligence.
  2. DALL-E Does Palsgraf, 14 Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet 82 (2023). This article asks a leading artificial intelligence (AI) tool for image generation to illustrate the facts of a leading law school case. It introduces machine learning generally, summarizes the seminal case of Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad, presents the images that the tool created based on the facts as the majority and dissent recount them, and then translates this exercise into lessons for how lawyers and the law should think about AI.
  3. Initial Thoughts on "road safety challenges posed by the use of automated vehicles in traffic that an international legal instrument could adequately address" (May 2022). This paper, prepared for an ongoing drafting effort within the UN's Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety, highlights issues raised by the potential international character of automated driving.
  4. From Driverless Dilemmas to More Practical Commonsense Tests for Automated Vehicles, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (March 16, 2021) (with Julian De Freitas, Andrea Censi, Luigi Di Lillo, Sam E. Anthony, and Emilio Frazzoli). This article sketches a pragmatic framework for testing common sense as an integral part of assessing the safety of an automated driving system. Behavior that is safe, predictable, reasonable, uniform, comfortable, and explainable (SPRUCE) can suggest common sense.
  5. How Reporters Can Evaluate Automated Driving Announcements, 2020 Journal of Law and Mobility 1 (2020). This article identifies a series of specific questions that reporters, academics, policymakers, and others can ask about claims made by developers of automated motor vehicles to facilitate a more critical, credible, and ultimately constructive understanding of the progress toward automated driving.
  6. Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Transport, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2020). This chapter uses the example of automated driving to highlight key ethical issues in the use of artificial intelligence in transport, including: the tension between technological solutions and policy solutions; the consequences of safety expectations; the complex choice between human authority and computer authority; and power dynamics among individuals, governments, and companies. It begins with the foundational relationship between ethics and transport more generally and concludes with a focus on the trustworthiness of the companies developing and deploying advanced technologies.
  7. New Technologies and Old Treaties, 114 American Journal of International Law Unbound 152–157 (2020), also available here. This essay presents the concrete case of automated driving as an opportunity to examine international law’s role in a world that artificial intelligence is helping to rapidly change. It introduces the road traffic conventions, identifies competing interpretations of their core driver requirements, and highlights ongoing efforts at the Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety to reach a consensus.
  8. It’s Not the Robot’s Fault! Russian and American Perspectives on Responsibility for Robot Harms (with Andrey Neznamov), 30 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 143-163 (2019), published in Russian in Zakon ("Law") (May 2019). In this article, two legal scholars—one from Russia and one from the United States—draw on the law of both countries to propose an integrated approach for civil liability for harms from automated vehicles, personal robots, and other cyberphysical systems.
  9. Issues Memos and Drafts for the ULC Uniform Automated Operation of Vehicles Act (2019), including the final act with comments and the drafting memoranda. These materials provide background on remote facilitation of the driving task (including but not limited to teleoperation), level 3 automation, following distance requirements, and the definition of a driver during automated operation, among other topics.
  10. Automated Driving and Product Liability, 2017 Michigan State Law Review 1 (2016). This article focuses on one cyberphysical domain — automated driving — to methodically analyze the so-called liability problem. It considers how automated driving could affect product liability, how product liability could affect automated driving, and how each could advance or impede the prevention of injury and the compensation of victims. It concludes that the current product liability regime, while imperfect, is probably compatible with the adoption of automated driving systems.
  11. Government Assessment of Innovation Shouldn't Differ for Tech Companies, New York Times, October 24, 2016. This short piece argues that, while legislators and regulators cannot have all the answers, they must get better at asking the key questions.
  12. How Can Government Officials Clear the Road for Self-Driving Cars?, Governing, April 8, 2016. This short piece summarizes key public policy recommendations.
  13. How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving, 2017 New Mexico Law Review 1 (2016). This article presents nearly 50 steps that governments at all levels can take now to encourage the socially beneficial development, deployment, and use of automated road vehicles. It begins with technical and policy overviews and concludes with a call to facilitate automated driving in part by expecting more from today’s drivers and vehicles.
  14. The Trolley and the Pinto: Cost-Benefit Analysis in Automated Driving and Other Cyber-Physical Systems, 4 Texas A&M Law Review 197 (2017). This article describes how interest in automated driving has brought new fame to a classic philosophical thought experiment (the “trolley problem”), critiques how this thought experiment has been applied in that context, proposes a more practical extension of that experiment based on risk rather than harm, notes that this extension may still involve programming value judgments, argues with reference to the Ford Pinto debacle that these judgments could inflame juries or the public at large, and emphasizes the need for appropriately focused public discussion of these issues.
  15. Controlling Humans and Machines, 30 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 167 (2016). This article considers the “meaningful human control” of lethal weapons. Rather than focus on the role that a human should play in an otherwise automated weapon system, it reverses these human and machine roles to consider automated systems that limit human-initiated lethal force. After discussing the concept of control generally, it argues that a bias toward human authority could unduly preserve that authority and that the line between automated systems that initiate lethal force and automated systems that restrict that force is not clear.
  16. Select Legal Considerations for Shared Automated Driving (2016). This discussion paper introduces several legal considerations and policy recommendations for shared automated driving with a view toward grounding a broader policy discussion.
  17. Automated Driving Policy (book chapter), in Lecture Notes in Mobility: Road Vehicle Automation 3 (2016). This chapter summarizes a longer policy paper, How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving, which details steps that state and local governments can take now to encourage the responsible development, deployment, and use of automated road vehicles.
  18. Regulation and the Risk of Inaction (book chapter), in Autonomes Fahren (2015). This chapter first considers the nature of risk, the nature of regulation, and the challenge of regulating, in a broad sense, the increasing automation of motor vehicles. It then introduces four pairs of strategies to respond to this challenge: Ensure sufficient compensation for those who are injured, force information-sharing by the private sector to enhance regulation, simplify both the technical and the regulatory challenges in coordination, and raise the playing field for conventional actors along with automated systems.
  19. Lawyers and Engineers Should Speak the Same Robot Language (book chapter), in Robot Law (2015), summarized in [78576a33e081/UploadedImages/documents/pdfs/Posters/BryantWalkerSmith_FirstTRB2014Poster.pdf this poster]. This book chapter explains the importance of systems, language, use, and users—concepts familiar to both law and engineering—in the development and regulation of robots.
  20. Bryant Walker Smith on the Future of Self-Driving Cars, Popular Science, June 2015. "People ask me, ‘Are you concerned about self-driving cars?’ And I say, ‘Yes, but I’m terrified of today’s cars.’"
  21. Automated and Autonomous Driving: Regulation under Uncertainty, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2015) (with Joakim Svensson) (principal contributing authors). This report explores strategic issues to be considered by policymakers in anticipation of automated vehicles.
  22. Proximity-Driven Liability, 102 Georgetown Law Journal 1777 (2014). This paper argues that commercial sellers’ growing information about, access to, and control over their products, product users, and product uses could significantly expand their point-of-sale and post-sale obligations toward people endangered by these products. It first describes how companies are embracing new technologies that expand their information, access, and control, with primary reference to the increasingly automated and connected motor vehicle. It next analyzes how this proximity to product, user, and use could impact product-related claims. It finally flips the analysis to consider how the uncertainty caused in part by changing liability could drive companies to further embrace this proximity.
  23. A Legal Perspective on Three Misconceptions in Vehicle Automation (book chapter), in Lecture Notes in Mobility: Road Vehicle Automation (2014). This chapter addresses three commonly misunderstood aspects of vehicle automation: capability, deployment, and connectivity. For each, it identifies a myth pervading public discussion, provides a contradictory view common among experts, explains why that expert view is itself incomplete, and discusses the legal implications of this nuance. These three aspects suggest a shift in transportation from a product model to a service model.
  24. Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States, 1 Texas A&M Law Review 411 (2014) (originally published as white paper in 2012). This foundational article provides the most comprehensive discussion to date of whether automated vehicles can be lawfully sold and used on public roads in the United States. The short answer is that computer direction of a motor vehicle’s steering, braking, and accelerating without real-time human supervision is probably legal. The long answer, contained in the very long article, provides a foundation for tailoring regulations and understanding liability issues related to these vehicles.
  25. Rahmenbedingungen für die Fahrerassistenzentwicklung (book chapter), in Handbuch Fahrerassistenzsysteme 3. Auflage (2014) (with Tom Michael Gasser and Andre Seeck). This chapter describes legal principles and conditions for the development of advanced driver assistance systems.
  26. Automated Vehicle Technology: Ten Research Areas to Follow in 2014, TR News, issue 292 (May-June 2014) (with Bob Denaro, Johanna Zmud, Steven Shladover, and Jane Lappin). This article captures key insights from the major automated driving research conference that the five authors organized at Stanford University.
  27. Automated Vehicles: Language, Legality, and Liability, Thinking Highways, October 2012 (with Tom Michael Gasser). This article, written with a government lawyer in Germany, sketches an early vision for defining automated driving, assessing its legal status, and understanding its implications for civil liability.
  28. Who Is the Driver?, New Scientist, December 22, 2012, syndicated as How Do You Ticket a Driverless Car?, Slate, December 30, 2012. This short article, written before automated driving captured broad attention, previews key legal questions raised by increasing vehicle automation.
  29. Managing Autonomous Transportation Demand, 52 Santa Clara Law Review 1401 (2012), excerpted as Tomorrow’s World, Traffic Tech. Int’l, April-May 2013, at 4-10. This article argues that automation could significantly increase motor vehicle travel and that this increase could have important consequences for the physical and legal infrastructures in which tomorrow’s vehicles will operate. It discusses four key traffic engineering concepts, explains why automation could increase vehicle-miles traveled and shows how this increase could undermine some of the claims made about reducing congestion and emissions, identifies the potential effects of increased VMT on land use and argues that the law can help manage these effects by better internalizing the costs and benefits of motor vehicle travel, and offers preliminary recommendations.
  30. Water as a Public Good: The Status of Water under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 17 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 291 (2009). This article argues that water is not a “product” subject to the World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), because the established, widespread, and consistent assertion by states of public ownership over their water resources through both municipal and international law (the “public-ownership consensus”) precludes any reading of GATT that would fundamentally alter the unique status of those resources.
  31. Stakeholder Reaction to Emissions Trading in the United States, the European Union, and the Netherlands, 25 Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law 137 (2009). As a contribution to the debate over market-based environmental regulation, this article examines the reaction of stakeholders to cap-and-trade programs proposed or implemented in the United States, the European Union, and the Netherlands for industrial emissions of certain pollutants.
  32. Meaningful Participation in a Global Climate Regime, 39 Environmental Law Reporter: News and Analysis 10881 (2009). This article argues that an effective climate regime must be global rather than merely international and must recognize the significant involvement of actors other than states. It first examines the role of statism in the existing international climate regime and challenges assumptions that underlie the demand for the global South’s "meaningful participation" in that regime. It demonstrates how the global South is already participating in a global climate regime through the activities of private economic actors from around the world, and it proposes approaches for reconciling these two important regimes.

Key Resources

  1. Taxonomy of Law and Technology
  2. Inclusive definition of Road traffic safety
  3. Automated Driving Definitions
  4. Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Law on the Automated Operation of Motor Vehicles
  5. Questions to Ask About AV Announcements
  6. Video Overview of Automated Driving
  7. The Trustworthy Company
  8. Carolina House Rules
  9. Hierarchy of AI Fears

Blog Posts

  1. Over-the-air updates and regulatory recalls
  2. On Cruise's Crash (and Quinn's Report)
  3. DALL-E Does Palsgraf
  4. An Academic Vision for AI Ethics
  5. On Remote Driving
  6. Deep in the Weeds of the Levels of Automation Lurks an Ambiguous Minimal Risk Condition
  7. California's AV Testing Rules Apply to Tesla's "FSD"
  8. Tracking NHTSA's "Driverless Vehicle" Rule
  9. Tesla's Fatal Crash
  10. A Sad Irony for Governor Ducy after Uber's Fatal Crash
  11. Uber's Fatal Crash
  12. The Senate's Automated Driving Bill Could Squash State Authority
  13. Congress's Automated Driving Bills Are Both More and Less Than They Seem
  14. Legislative Shout Outs to Georgia and Virginia
  15. Uber vs. the Law
  16. Michigan's Automated Driving Bills
  17. New Years Resolutions for Developers of Automated Vehicles
  18. Tesla and Liability
  19. Automated Vehicle Crashes
  20. Slow Down That Runaway Ethical Trolley
  21. New Book: Road Vehicle Automation
  22. Something Interesting in California's New Automated Vehicle Testing Rule
  23. Human Error as a Cause of Vehicle Crashes
  24. Uncertain Liability
  25. Looking at My Vehicle Automation Entries in the Rear-View Mirror
  26. Planning for the Obsolescence of Technologies Not Yet Invented
  27. The Reasonable Self-Driving Car
  28. The Impact of Automation on Environmental Impact Statements
  29. Driverless Carts Are Coming Sooner Than Driverless Cars
  30. Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States
  31. A Self-Driving Crash Test
  32. Stanford Students: Fall 2012 Course on the Law of Autonomous Driving
  33. Planning for Autonomous Driving
  34. On Blind Drivers and Base Maps
  35. Driving at Perfection
  36. My Other Car Is a … Robot? Defining Vehicle Automation
  37. Backseat Driving

Posters

  1. Poster of the Model Automated Driving Laws (2017)
  2. How Governments Can Encourage Automated Driving (2015)
  3. Lawyers and Engineers Can Speak the Same Robot Language (2014)
  4. Law of the Newly Possible (2014)
  5. Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States (2013)
  6. Legal Aspects of Automated Driving (2013)

Selected Slides

  1. The Public Safety Case (2016)
  2. Developing Danger (2015)
  3. Regulating Automated Driving (2015)
  4. Automated Driving Macroliability (2016)
  5. Automated Driving Liability (2015)
  6. Ethical Issues in Automated Driving (2015)
  7. Intro to Blockchain (2017)
  8. Aerial Takings (2017)

Other Materials

  1. How an (Autonomous Driving) Bill Becomes Law: An Oral History of Nevada's Groundbreaking Regulation of Self-Driving Vehicles, November 8, 2012
  2. Additional videos are available here (Multimedia tab) and here

Media Appearances

  1. Center for Internet and Society index (Select the "Press" tab at the bottom of my biography)
  2. Google index

Courses

See my courses