Publications
From NewlyPossible.org
Law of the Newly Possible (including Legal and Policy Aspects of Automated Driving)
Selected works by Bryant Walker Smith
Course Materials
Scholarly Articles
- How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving (2016), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2749375
- Regulation and the Risk of Inaction (book chapter), in Autonomes Fahren (2015), available at http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-45854-9_27
- Lawyers and Engineers Should Speak the Same Robot Language (book chapter), in Robot Law (forthcoming 2015), contact author for copy -- see also this draft or this poster
- Proximity-Driven Liability, 102 Georgetown L.J. 1777 (2014), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2336234
- 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
- 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
- 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
Joint Articles
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Bryant Walker Smith and Tom Michael Gasser, Automated Vehicles: Language, Legality, and Liability, Thinking Highways, October 2012
Other Articles
- 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
- 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
Key Reference Documents
- Automated Driving: Legislative and Regulatory Action, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Automated_Driving:_Legislative_and_Regulatory_Action
- SAE Levels of Driving Automation, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/loda
Selected Blog Posts
- New Years Resolutions for Developers of Automated Vehicles, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2016/01/new-years-resolutions-developers-automated-vehicles
- Tesla and Liability, https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/05/tesla-and-liability
- Automated Vehicle Crashes, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/05/automated-vehicle-crashes
- Slow Down That Runaway Ethical Trolley, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/01/slow-down-runaway-ethical-trolley
- New Book: Road Vehicle Automation, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/06/new-book-road-vehicle-automation
- Something Interesting in California's New Automated Vehicle Testing Rule, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/05/something-interesting-californias-new-automated-vehicle-testing-rule
- Human Error as a Cause of Vehicle Crashes, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/12/human-error-cause-vehicle-crashes
- Uncertain Liability, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/05/uncertain-liability
- Looking at My Vehicle Automation Entries in the Rear-View Mirror, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/looking-my-vehicle-automation-entries-rear-view-mirror
- Planning for the Obsolescence of Technologies Not Yet Invented, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/planning-obsolescence-technologies-not-yet-invented
- The Reasonable Self-Driving Car, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/reasonable-self-driving-car
- The Impact of Automation on Environmental Impact Statements, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/impact-automation-environmental-impact-statements
- Driverless Carts Are Coming Sooner Than Driverless Cars, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/09/driverless-carts-are-coming-sooner-driverless-cars
- Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/04/automated-vehicles-are-probably-legal-united-states
- A Self-Driving Crash Test, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/07/self-driving-crash-test
- Stanford Students: Fall 2012 Course on the Law of Autonomous Driving, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/07/stanford-students-fall-2012-course-law-autonomous-driving
- Planning for Autonomous Driving, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/05/planning-autonomous-driving
- On Blind Drivers and Base Maps, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/03/blind-drivers-and-base-maps
- Driving at Perfection, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/03/driving-perfection
- My Other Car Is a … Robot? Defining Vehicle Automation, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/02/my-other-car-robot-defining-vehicle-automation
- Backseat Driving, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2012/02/backseat-driving
Posters
- How Governments Can Encourage Automated Driving (2015)
- Lawyers and Engineers Can Speak the Same Robot Language (2014)
- Law of the Newly Possible (2014)
- Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States (2013)
- Legal Aspects of Automated Driving (2013)
Selected Slides
- Developing Danger (2015)
- Regulating Automated Driving (2015)
- Automated Vehicle Liability (2015)
- Ethical Issues in Automated Driving (2015)
Other Materials
- 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
- Additional video is available under the multimedia tab here