# kaal:claim:2834531-022

**Claim.** Time pressure produces two distinct fact failures: the facts about a new technology may simply not exist yet, or regulators may select the wrong, contested, or irrelevant facts as the basis of regulation.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- conditions of incessant and accelerating technological change

**Source quote.**

> The pressure of time means that the facts surrounding a piece of new technology or other innovation may not be there, or the regulators may simply select the "wrong" — or at least contested or otherwise irrelevant — facts as the basis of regulation.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law* (2017), A. Facts Today, page 17

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2834531

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**Failure mode.** wrong facts under time pressure  (family: regulatory-lag)

**Topics.** empirical-evidence

**Keywords.** fact-selection, regulatory-timing, pacing-problem, evidence-base

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