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A Legal Perspective on Three Misconceptions in Vehicle Automation

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In this chapter I address three commonly misunderstood aspects of vehicle automation: capability, deployment, and connectivity. For each, I identify a myth pervading public discussion, provide 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 I conclude.

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Notes

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    I am involved in this work. Before changing its name to an unintelligible anachronitialism, SAE International was the Society of Automotive and Aerospace Engineers.

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    Referring to the “legalization” of automated vehicles is misleading [3].

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    Similarly, as part of the US Department of Transportation’s field study of dedicated short-range communications (DSRC)—a related but, as discussed below, distinguishable set of technologies—nearly three thousand ordinary vehicles in Ann Arbor, Michigan were retrofitted with DSRC equipment.

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  4. Smith BW (2013) Driverless carts are coming sooner than driverless cars, Blog Post. Sep 2013. Available at https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/09/driverless-carts-are-coming-sooner-driverless-cars

  5. Smith BW, Planning for the obsolescence of technologies not yet invented, Blog Post, Oct 2013. Available at https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/planning-obsolescence-technologies-not-yet-invented

  6. Smith BW (2014) (forthcoming) Proximity-driven liability, Georgetown Law Rev. Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2336234

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  1. University of South Carolina School of Law, 701 Main Street, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    Bryant Walker Smith

  2. Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Bryant Walker Smith

  3. Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS), 416 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Bryant Walker Smith

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  1. VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH, Berlin, Germany

    Gereon Meyer

  2. Center for Automotive Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Sven Beiker

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Smith, B.W. (2014). A Legal Perspective on Three Misconceptions in Vehicle Automation. In: Meyer, G., Beiker, S. (eds) Road Vehicle Automation. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05990-7_8

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