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21 UCLA J.L. & Tech. [i] (2017)

handle is hein.journals/ujlt21 and id is 1 raw text is: Spring 2017 www.lawtechjournal.com Volume 21, Issue 1 UCLA Journal of Law & Technology WHO PAYS WHEN DRONES CRASH? Henry H. Perritt, Jr.t I. A (H YPO TH ETICAL) L AW SU IT .................................................................................................. 1 A . T h e P lain tiff's S to ry ..........................................................................................................................1 B. The Operator's Story ........................................................................................................................1 C . T h e V en d o r's S to ry ...........................................................................................................................3 D . T h e M o ral o f th e S to ry ......................................................................................................................4 II. IN T R O D U C T IO N ........................................................................................................................ 4 III. AUTOMATION'S PROGRESS IN THE DIFFERENT TRANSPORTATION MODES ....................... 7 A. Aviation ............................................................................................................................................8 1. C o ck p it A u to m atio n .....................................................................................................................8 2 . D ro n e s ..........................................................................................................................................9 B. Rail Robots .....................................................................................................................................10 C . A u tom ated A u tom ob iles .................................................................................................................1 1 D . S elf-N av ig atin g S h ip s .....................................................................................................................12 i Professor of law and former dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law, the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology. Commercial helicopter and private instrument airplane pilot and remote pilot, small unmanned aircraft. Extra-class radio amateur (K9KDF). Member of the bar: Virginia (inactive), Pennsylvania (inactive), District of Columbia, Maryland, Illinois, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Perritt has written twenty books and nearly a hundred law review articles on public policy and law and technology, including DOMESTICATING DRONES: THE TECHNOLOGY, LAW, AND ECONOMICS OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT, (2016) (with Eliot O. Sprague); SMALL DRONE GUIDE: PASS THE FAA REMOTE PILOT TEST (2016) (with Eliot O. Sprague); Drones, 17 VANDERBILT J. ENT. & TECH. L. 101 (2015) (with Eliot O. Sprague); Law Abiding Drones, 16 COLUM. SCI. & TECH. L. REv. 385 (2015) (with Eliot 0. Sprague); Developing DROP Discipline: Training and Testing Operators of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, 7 HASTINGS SC. & TECH. L. J. 143 (2015) (with Eliot O. Sprague); Using the Internet to Make Drones Safe, 19 NO. 5 J. INTERNET L. 1 (2015) (with Albert J. Plawinski); Making civilian drones safe: performance standards, self-certification, and post-sale data collection, 14 Nw. J. TECH. & INTELL. PROP. 1 (2016) (with Albert J. Plawinski); One centimeter over my back yard: where does federal preemption of state drone regulation start?, 17 N.C.J.L. & TECH. 307 (2015) (with Albert J. Plawinski). He represents drone operators before the FAA and state and local governments. He appreciates idea incubation on this subject from his friend, Eliot O. Sprague, and suggestions from Albert Plawinski and James Redondo, both Chicago-Kent College of Law students, class of 2018, who were kind enough to read a draft of this article.

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