Autonomous Cars

The practical path to driverless cars | The Atlantic Cities

CIS Blog 01 Apr 2014

"Google has a lot of data from its fleet," says Bryant Walker Smith, resident fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, who's written about the legality of autonomous cars....

SAE defines six levels of driving automation

Bryant Walker Smith 07 Feb 2014

Photo: Osvaldo Gago SAE International's On-Road Automated Vehicle Standards Committee, on which I serve along with experts from industry and government, has released an information report defini...

Human error as a cause of vehicle crashes

Bryant Walker Smith 07 Feb 2014

Source: Wonderlane. Some ninety percent of motor vehicle crashes are caused at least in part by human error. This intuitive claim is a fine place to start discussions about the safety potenti...

Six questions states need to ask about self-driving cars | Governing

CIS Blog 13 Aug 2013

A growing number of states are taking up legislation that addresses self-driving vehicles in an effort to make it easier for researchers to explore the technology. But most of the legislation deals...

The ethics of saving lives with autonomous cars are far murkier than you think | Wired

CIS Blog 30 Jul 2013

If you don’t listen to Google’s robot car, it will yell at you. I’m not kidding: I learned that on my test-drive at a Stanford conference on vehicle automation a couple weeks ago. The ...

Under pressure, Google may slow rollout of driverless car technology

CIS Blog 22 Jul 2013

Google is under pressure from people inside and outside the company to crimp some features until society gets more used to automated cars. Read more: Steve Rosenbush, Wall Street...

Disruptions: How driverless cars could reshape cities | New York Times

CIS Blog 17 Jul 2013

By now, seeing one of Google’s experimental, driverless cars zipping down Silicon Valley’s Highway 101, or parking itself on a San Francisco street, is not all that unusual. Indeed, as automakers...

Roadmap for driverless cars: Five highlights | The Wall Street Journal

CIS Blog 04 Jun 2013

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday came out with a road map for navigating the future of self-driving cars. Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who st...

Google’s driverless future: Will self-piloting vehicles rob us of our privacy and autonomy? | Reason.com

Hallie Siegel 14 May 2013

“Our cars have sensors with which they magically can see everything around them,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun exclaimed in a 2011 TED talk. And yet no one ran out of the room screaming. That�...

Correcting misconceptions about autonomous vehicles | Openmarket.org

CIS Blog 10 May 2013

In the June issue of Reason, one of my favorite publications, Greg Beato has an article discussing the public policy implications of autonomous vehicles, such as Google’s Self-Driving Car. While ...

Nissan NSC-2015 drives and parks automatically in a shopping mall car park

DigInfo TV 05 Oct 2012

This autonomous driving system, developed by Nissan, can automatically drive and park your car in a shopping center parking lot. The EV used in this demo, the NSC-2015, contains technology for reco...