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 # '''[https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ultimate-guide-for-taking-a-robotaxi-in-china-2026-2 The Ultimate Guide to Taking a Robotaxi in China]''' (2026) (with Sven Beiker). This brief article explains how to ride in multiple companies' robotaxis in multiple Chinese cities.
 # '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5631391 "Self-Driving" Means Self-Driving]''' (2025). Tesla uses the name "Full Self-Driving" to market a driver assistance system that still requires its user to pay attention to the road. And yet, as this article documents, there is a broad consensus among developers and regulators of motor vehicle technologies, including Tesla itself, that the term "self-driving" correctly refers only to a system whose user does not need to pay attention. This conclusion is foundational to ongoing legal proceedings around the world.
-# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=5595951 Regulating Robotaxis]''' (2025) (with Matthew Wansley). This article offers a plan to regulate robotaxis focused on pragmatic internalization of external costs, competition in transportation markets, and livability of communities.
+# '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=5595951 Regulating Robotaxis]''', Southern California Law Review (2025) (with Matthew Wansley). This article offers a plan to regulate robotaxis focused on pragmatic internalization of external costs, competition in transportation markets, and livability of communities.
-# '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5034907 Ideal Enforcement: How Do We Achieve Optimal Enforcement of Traffic Law as Ubiquitous Enforcement Becomes Technologically Conceivable?]''' (2024) (with Jeffrey Michael and Johnathon Ehsani). This interdisciplinary article uses traffic law as a case study for how automation and private monitoring could drive a dramatic increase in overall enforcement -- and presents principles for an alternative vision of ideal enforcement.
+# '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5034907 Ideal Enforcement: How Do We Achieve Optimal Enforcement of Traffic Law as Ubiquitous Enforcement Becomes Technologically Conceivable?]''', Michigan Technology Law Review (2024) (with Jeffrey Michael and Johnathon Ehsani). This interdisciplinary article uses traffic law as a case study for how automation and private monitoring could drive a dramatic increase in overall enforcement -- and presents principles for an alternative vision of ideal enforcement.
 # '''[https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2023-12-16_AcademicVisionforAI.pdf An Academic Vision for AI]''' (2023), based on [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/04/academic-vision-ai-ethics An Academic Vision for AI Ethics] (2022). This brief statement describes how universities might approach artificial intelligence.
 # '''[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://www.businessinsider.com/the-ultimate-guide-for-taking-a-robotaxi-in-china-2026-2 The Ultimate Guide to Taking a Robotaxi in China]''' (2026) (with Sven Beiker). This brief article explains how to ride in multiple companies' robotaxis in multiple Chinese cities.
 # '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5631391 "Self-Driving" Means Self-Driving]''' (2025). Tesla uses the name "Full Self-Driving" to market a driver assistance system that still requires its user to pay attention to the road. And yet, as this article documents, there is a broad consensus among developers and regulators of motor vehicle technologies, including Tesla itself, that the term "self-driving" correctly refers only to a system whose user does not need to pay attention. This conclusion is foundational to ongoing legal proceedings around the world.

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-# '''[https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ultimate-guide-for-taking-a-robotaxi-in-china-2026-2 The Ultimate Guide to Taking a Robotaxi in China]''' (2026) (with Sven Beiker). This brief article explains how to experience multiple companies' robotaxis in multiple Chinese cities.
+# '''[https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ultimate-guide-for-taking-a-robotaxi-in-china-2026-2 The Ultimate Guide to Taking a Robotaxi in China]''' (2026) (with Sven Beiker). This brief article explains how to ride in multiple companies' robotaxis in multiple Chinese cities.
 # '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5631391 "Self-Driving" Means Self-Driving]''' (2025). Tesla uses the name "Full Self-Driving" to market a driver assistance system that still requires its user to pay attention to the road. And yet, as this article documents, there is a broad consensus among developers and regulators of motor vehicle technologies, including Tesla itself, that the term "self-driving" correctly refers only to a system whose user does not need to pay attention. This conclusion is foundational to ongoing legal proceedings around the world.
 # '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=5595951 Regulating Robotaxis]''' (2025) (with Matthew Wansley). This article offers a plan to regulate robotaxis focused on pragmatic internalization of external costs, competition in transportation markets, and livability of communities.

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-# '''[https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ultimate-guide-for-taking-a-robotaxi-in-china-2026-2 The Ultimate Guide to Taking a Robotaxi in China]''' (2026) (with Sven Beiker).
+# '''[https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ultimate-guide-for-taking-a-robotaxi-in-china-2026-2 The Ultimate Guide to Taking a Robotaxi in China]''' (2026) (with Sven Beiker). This brief article explains how to experience multiple companies' robotaxis in multiple Chinese cities.
 # '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5631391 "Self-Driving" Means Self-Driving]''' (2025). Tesla uses the name "Full Self-Driving" to market a driver assistance system that still requires its user to pay attention to the road. And yet, as this article documents, there is a broad consensus among developers and regulators of motor vehicle technologies, including Tesla itself, that the term "self-driving" correctly refers only to a system whose user does not need to pay attention. This conclusion is foundational to ongoing legal proceedings around the world.
 # '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=5595951 Regulating Robotaxis]''' (2025) (with Matthew Wansley). This article offers a plan to regulate robotaxis focused on pragmatic internalization of external costs, competition in transportation markets, and livability of communities.

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 # '''[https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5631391 "Self-Driving" Means Self-Driving]''' (2025). Tesla uses the name "Full Self-Driving" to market a driver assistance system that still requires its user to pay attention to the road. And yet, as this article documents, there is a broad consensus among developers and regulators of motor vehicle technologies, including Tesla itself, that the term "self-driving" correctly refers only to a system whose user does not need to pay attention. This conclusion is foundational to ongoing legal proceedings around the world.
 # '''[https://ssrn.com/abstract=5595951 Regulating Robotaxis]''' (2025) (with Matthew Wansley). This article offers a plan to regulate robotaxis focused on pragmatic internalization of external costs, competition in transportation markets, and livability of communities.

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 ## [https://www.youtube.com/live/6bm7f95ZxZY?si=uvW-BHyviV9Figqs&t=2717 Video]
 ## [https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/05C131FA-5011-406D-A9A1-C64BE8E81CE4 Written testimony]
 ## [https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/2/hit-the-road-mac-the-future-of-self-driving-cars Hearing webpage]
 # '''[https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2025-06-28_FutureHumanitySpeech_BryantWalkerSmith.pdf For Humanity]''' (2025). This brief speech for the launch of the Joint Academy on Future Humanity argues that technology makes humanity more rather than less important.

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	== Recent Highlights ==		== Recent Highlights ==
		+	# '''Testimony to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee''':
		+	## [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2026/02/opening-statement-of-professor-bryant-walker-smith-for-the-u-s-senate-commerce-committees-hearing-on-automated-driving-february-4-2026-2/ Opening statement]
		+	## [https://www.youtube.com/live/6bm7f95ZxZY?si=uvW-BHyviV9Figqs&t=2717 Video]
		+	## [https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/05C131FA-5011-406D-A9A1-C64BE8E81CE4 Written testimony]
		+	## [https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/2/hit-the-road-mac-the-future-of-self-driving-cars Hearing webpage]
	# '''[https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2025-06-28_FutureHumanitySpeech_BryantWalkerSmith.pdf For Humanity]''' (2025). This brief speech for the launch of the Joint Academy on Future Humanity argues that technology makes humanity more rather than less important.		# '''[https://newlypossible.org/files/presentations/2025-06-28_FutureHumanitySpeech_BryantWalkerSmith.pdf For Humanity]''' (2025). This brief speech for the launch of the Joint Academy on Future Humanity argues that technology makes humanity more rather than less important.

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 # [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2025/08/turquoise-lamps-on-cars-that-cannot-drive-themselves/ Turquoise Lamps on Cars That Cannot Drive Themselves]
 # [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/comparing-robotaxis-baidus-apollo-and-alphabets-waymo/ Comparing Robotaxis: Baidu's Apollo and Alphabet's Waymo]

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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. '' Erratum: In this article I errantly call the Inland Transport Committee a "commission." I apologize for my mistake.''
 # '''[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.
-# '''[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.
+# '''[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 final act with comments] and the [https://ssrn.com/abstract=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.
 # '''[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.
 # '''[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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 # Taxonomy of [[Law and Technology]]
 # Inclusive definition of [[Road traffic safety]]
-# [[Automated Driving Definitions]]
+# [[Driving Automation Definitions]]
 # [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]
 # [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3747036 Questions to Ask About AV Announcements]