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Big Brother Riding Shotgun: Internal Surveillance Of Semi-Autonomous Vehicles And Its Effects On The Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy, Tunca Bolca Jun 2019

Big Brother Riding Shotgun: Internal Surveillance Of Semi-Autonomous Vehicles And Its Effects On The Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy, Tunca Bolca

Canadian Journal of Law and Technology

The makers of autonomous vehicles (AVs) claim that their vehicles will reduce traffic accidents by 90 per cent and save millions of lives. Although this is yet to be proven, even if these new generation cars are made to be everything that the carmakers claim, accidents will still happen. Now, as the technology is progressing, governments and scholars are trying to come up with solutions to many legal, ethical and sociological problems the AVs will bring along.


Let’S Be Reasonable: The Consumer Expectations Test Is Simply Not Viable To Determine Design Defect For Complex Autonomous Vehicle Technology, Emily Frascaroli, John Isaac Southerland, Elizabeth Davis, Woods Parker Jan 2019

Let’S Be Reasonable: The Consumer Expectations Test Is Simply Not Viable To Determine Design Defect For Complex Autonomous Vehicle Technology, Emily Frascaroli, John Isaac Southerland, Elizabeth Davis, Woods Parker

Journal of Law and Mobility

Although highly automated vehicles (“HAVs”) have potential to reduce deaths and injuries from traffic crashes, product liability litigation for design defects in vehicles incorporating autonomous technology is inevitable. During the early stages of implementation, courts and juries will be forced to grapple with the application of traditional product liability principles to a never before experienced category of highly technical products. Recent decisions limiting the use of the consumer expectations test in cases involving complex products prompted the authors to examine more closely the history behind and the future viability of the consumer expectations test in HAV litigation.


Law's Halo And The Moral Machine, Bert I. Huang Jan 2019

Law's Halo And The Moral Machine, Bert I. Huang

Faculty Scholarship

How will we assess the morality of decisions made by artificial intelli­gence – and will our judgments be swayed by what the law says? Focusing on a moral dilemma in which a driverless car chooses to sacrifice its passenger to save more people, this study offers evidence that our moral intuitions can be influenced by the presence of the law.