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2020 J.L. & Mobility 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/jlwmby2020 and id is 1 raw text is: HOW REPORTERS CAN EVALUATE AUTOMATED DRIVING ANNOUNCEMENTS BRYANT WALKER SMITH Cite as: Bryant Walker Smith, How Reporters Can Evaluate Automated Driving Announcements, 2020 J. L. & MOB. 1. This manuscript may be accessed online at https://futurist.law.umich.edu and at https://repository.law.umich.edu/jlm/. This article identifies a series of specific questions that reporters can ask about claims made by developers of automated motor vehicles (AVs).' Its immediate intent is to facilitate more critical, credible, and ultimately constructive reporting on progress toward automated driving. In turn, reporting of this kind advances three additional goals. First, it encourages AV developers to qualify and support their public claims. Second, it appropriately manages public expectations about these vehicles. Third, it fosters more technical accuracy and technological circumspection in legal and policy scholarship. This third purpose goes to the core of this interdisciplinary journal. Legal and policy scholarship about emerging technologies often relies at least in part on popular reporting. On one hand, this reporting can provide timely and accessible insights into these technologies, particularly when the scientific literature cannot. On the other hand, this reporting can reflect misconceptions based on incomplete information supplied by self-interested developers- misconceptions that are then entrenched through legal citation. For example, I have pushed back against claims that automated driving will be a panacea,2 1. These questions first appeared in Questions to Ask About AV Announcements, LAW OF THE NEWLY POSSIBLE, www.newlvpossible.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ouestions to Ask About AV Announcements (last updated Oct. 14, 2019). This article updates and explains them. 2. See Bryant Walker Smith, How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving, 47 N.M. L. REV. 99 (2017); Bryant Walker Smith, Managing Autonomous Transportation Demand, 52 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 1401 (2012). 1

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