Smart Driving Cars
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Colorado driverless car bill shelved until further noticeUpdated: 02/05/2013 06:44:40 PM MST
By Monte Whaley The Denver Post
Entry point to Telematics Update publications (European focus)
As Bosch unveils its vision for autonomous cars, Telematics Update Envisages the Future of Mobility
Feb 5, 2013
More on Platooning
Will driverless cars decrease fossil fuel consumption?
By Roy Torbert and Blake Herrschaft Published February 06, 2013
NYT summaries and repetitions in case you missed seeing the originals: Feb. 6, 2013, 11:38 am 1 Comment
Wheelies: The Google Edition
Smart Driving Cars
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Some literature on the legal aspects:
Notes on Autonomous Cars
19 Post author: gwern 24 January 2013 03:09AM
2-21-2012
Of Frightened Horses and Autonomous Vehicles:
Tort Law and its Assimilation of Innovations
Kyle Graham
Santa Clara University School of Law,
Schumpeter
The driverless road ahead
Carmakers are starting to take autonomous vehicles seriously. Other businesses should too
Oct 20th 2012
Intersect, Vol 5, No 1 (2012)
How Autonomous Vehicle Policy in California and Nevada Addresses Technological and Non-Technological Liabilities
Cyrus Pinto, Stanford University
Liability and Regulation of Autonomous Vehicle Technologies
Nidhi Kalra, James Anderson, Martin Wachs FHWA/CA/TL-CA09-1664
Clara UniversitySanta Clara Law Review; 52 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1171
SYMPOSIUM ARTICLE: PRIVACY IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
by Dorothy J. Glancy
Privacy and privacy laws will significantly influence the development of autonomous vehicles. Linking an individual person with an autonomous vehicle brings a number of privacy interests into play. Autonomy privacy interests, personal information privacy interests and surveillance privacy interests will all affect the powerful disruptive technologies involved in autonomous vehicles. Each of these privacy interests is associated with a substantial body of privacy law that will apply to autonomous vehicles. Because different configurations of autonomous vehicles will affect the reasonableness of privacy expectations regarding autonomous vehicles, this Article uses two models of potential types of autonomous vehicles?self contained autonomous vehicles as compared with interconnected autonomous vehicles. These two models help in understanding some of the ways in which autonomous vehicles will affect privacy at the same time as privacy affects autonomous vehicles. Autonomous vehicles will impact the personal autonomy of vehicle users by influencing individual choices and decisions about personal transportation. External control over an autonomous vehicle may discourage autonomous vehicle use because it threatens to override individual autonomy regarding transport decisions and destinations .Moreover, an autonomous vehicle is capable of collecting detailed personal information about the location and behavior of a person associated with it. What is done with that personal information can be of vital importance to the person. Autonomous vehicles will also be capable of facilitating surveillance of where an individual is, what the individual is doing and with whom, as well as keeping track of all the places to which that individual has traveled. Under centralized control, such surveillance could result in mass surveillance of all autonomous vehicle users. Because autonomous vehicles are not yet available as consumer products, now is the time to adopt potential strategies for optimizing interactions between privacy and autonomous vehicles.
Alain L. Kornhauser