Lunch Event on Steering the Driverless Revolution: The Law & Regulation of Autonomous Vehicles

Join us to explore the legal and regulatory challenges posed by driverless cars, including the moral decisions inherent in crash avoidance algorithms, how the Fourth Amendment addresses data collection and traffic stops, and how cities will need to update regulations and architecture to enable emerging Mobility as a Service models.

Both Boston City Council and the Massachusetts State Legislature are actively considering actions to either restrict or enable fully autonomous vehicles. What are the tradeoffs between safety, jobs, and easier transit? What path should we chart to enable progress without massive disruption?

Speakers

Mark Fagan is a Lecturer in Public Policy and former Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, he was a Lecturer at Boston University School of Law. Mr. Fagan is presently spearheading an initiative at The Taubman Center for State and Local Government that examines the policy and associated regulatory impacts of autonomous vehicles.  Mark Fagan was a founding partner of Norbridge, Inc. a general management consulting firm that has a distinctive competence in the transportation sector.  He earned a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning at Harvard University and a BA at Bucknell University. Conflict of Interest Disclosure: Mr. Fagan consults to an array of private sector clients.

Andrew Miller, Ph.D., is an author and speaker specializing in mobility innovation, automated driving, and the policy and regulation of emerging transportation technologies. He is co-author of The End of Driving (Elsevier, 2025) and writes Changing Lanes, the progress movement’s leading newsletter on transport innovation. Miller previously served as Associate Director of Mobility at Sidewalk Labs (an Alphabet company) and is currently a Fellow at the Roots of Progress Institute. A frequent keynote speaker, he is known for combining clarity, wit, and grounded realism in an era often dominated by hype. He holds a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and a recent certificate in AI Ethics from the Center for AI Safety.

Please RSVP here