Sharing the Road: Smart Transportation Infrastructure

Smart cities require smart transportation. Advanced Intelligent Transportation Systems provide ever-smarter transportation infrastructure for the United States and countries around the world. Among the most advance forms of ground transportation infrastructure is a group of technologies that connect vehicles invisibly to other vehicles through information exchanges. These advanced transportation technologies are of two types: On the one hand, Connected Vehicle Safety Systems use vehicle-to-vehicle dedicated short range communications technologies. On the other hand, Connected Vehicle Mobility Applicatoins use a muhc wider variety of mobile wireless technologies. These two types of technolofies that connect vehicles will increasingly make existing physical infrastructure safer and more efficient. At the same time, these vehicle-connecting technolofeis confront a number of legal and policy issues, including the regulatory environment, products liability, insurance, law enforcement access, privacy, and secutiry as discussed in this Article

Privacy on the Open Road

The discussion begins by describing some of the surveillance techniques and technologies that can affect the privacy of travelers along public roadways. Then the article turns to examine some of the privacy interests of people on the open road. The next part considers some of the many types of legal rights that protect the privacy of people on public roads or highways. The article concludes by addressing the principle that people on the open road have important rights to freedom from intrusions and interferences with their on-the-road activities

At the Intersection of Visible and Invisable Worlds: United States Privacy Law and the Internet

The purpose of this essay is to consider some characteristics ofUnited States privacy law that contribute to the obscurity of many intersections between the Internet and privacy law. This discussion is not an exhaustive catalogue of all of the ways in which United States privacy law may apply to Internet activities. Nor is it intended to bean evaluation of the effectiveness of this privacy law. Rather, the point here is to explore why the application of privacy law to the Internet is a matter of considerable complexity and some uncertainty.The focus is on certain characteristics of privacy law that can mislead even very smart people into believing that privacy is not here. Both the Internet and United States privacy law operate in varied ways across many dimensions. Just as the Internet is an interconnection of digital networks that operates in multiple ways tocommunicate data and other information worldwide, United States privacy law embraces many types of laws that protect and vindicate individual self-determination with regard to personal activities,private decisions, and personal information about an individual. With regard to the Internet, a varied assortment of privacy laws function in different ways to protect and to vindicate individual control over personal activities, decisions, and information. Thecomplexities of the potential interactions between privacy law and the Internet may be difficult to visualize. But it is a mistake to count privacy, and the laws which protect it, as zero