Automated Driving and Product Liability

Smith, Bryant Walker

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Automated Driving and Product Liability

Bryant Walker Smith, Automated Driving and Product Liability, 2017 MICH. ST. L. REV. 1

74 Pages Posted: 25 Feb 2017 Last revised: 16 Dec 2020

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Bryant Walker Smith

University of South Carolina - Joseph F. Rice School of Law; Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society

Date Written: October 1, 2016

Abstract

This Article focuses on one cyberphysical domain — automated driving — to methodically analyze the so-called liability problem. It considers how automated driving could affect product liability, how product liability could affect automated driving, and how each could advance or impede the prevention of injury and the compensation of victims.

Keywords: automated driving, autonomous driving, self-driving cars, driverless cars, automation, product liability, products liability, tort law, automotive insurance, cyberphysical systems, cyber-physical systems

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Smith, Bryant Walker, Automated Driving and Product Liability (October 1, 2016). Bryant Walker Smith, Automated Driving and Product Liability, 2017 MICH. ST. L. REV. 1, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2923240