Bryant Walker Smith

Micromobility Vehicles in the Park “Micromobility” refers to a diverse set of transportation modes that, at least on the ground, fall somewhere between traveling by foot and traveling by car: “bicycles, scooters, electric-assist bicycl...

"Micromobility" has always been around -- but for far too long has been at both the literal and metaphorical margins of our streets: cyberlaw.stanford.edu/micromobilit...

bryantws on Sora Plaintiff was standing on a platform of defendant’s railroad after buying a ticket to go to Rockaway Beach. A train stopped at the station, bound for another place. Two men ran forward to catch it. On...

And here's Sora 2 on the facts as summarized by Cardozo: sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68f6f312...

Automotive regulators and developers (including Tesla) recognize that "I am driving this self-driving car" and "I am driving this car that drives itself" are non-sequiturs:

papers.ssrn.com/abstract=563...

"Self-Driving" Means Self-Driving (draft article)

Three years ago I asked ChatGPT's image generator (née DALL-E) to illustrate the facts of the famous case of Palsgraf v. LIRR: ssrn.com/abstract=422...

Today, here's how Google's Gemini Veo interprets Judge Andrews's short summary of these facts:

Turquoise lamps on cars that cannot drive themselves Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indicate that they are in automated driving m...

On turquoise lights on cars that cannot drive themselves: cyberlaw.stanford.edu/turquoise-la...

2022: "Parsing whether [human agents] are driving or merely assisting distracts from the more important question of whether the company itself is driving *safely* through its hardware and software, its employees and contractors, and its connections between them.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/05...

I was just thinking about what a thoughtful researcher you are!

Wondering how Alphabet's Waymo robotaxis compare with Baidu's Apollo robotaxis? My observations from San Francisco and Wuhan are at cyberlaw.stanford.edu/comparing-ro...

The US Department of Transportation has released the report of the Transforming Transportation Advisory Committee on which I serve as vice chair:

www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

Our report makes numerous recommendations on AI, automated driving, project delivery, and innovation for safety.