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Reforming national legal frameworks for the deployment of automated vehicles. A UK perspective. Tamara Goriely and Jessica Uguccioni Automated Vehicles Team Law Commission of England and Wales The Law Commission of England and Wales
Reforming national legal frameworks for the deployment of automated vehicles. A UK perspective.
Tamara Goriely and Jessica Uguccioni Automated Vehicles Team Law Commission of England and Wales
The Law Commission of England and Wales
▪ Independent statutory body established by Act of Parliament in 1965 ▪ Purpose: to promote reform, simplification and modernisation
The Law Commissions’ Automated Vehicles Project
▪ Scope ▪ Joint project with the Scottish Law Commission ▪ Key initial areas of focus: ▪ Safety assurance ▪ Civil and criminal responsibility
Some difficult questions…
A key regulatory boundary
… when speeding?
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, section 89(1): A person who drives a motor vehicle on a road at a speed exceeding a limit imposed … shall be guilty
Who is criminally responsible…
Road Traffic Act 1988, section 40(A): A person is guilty of an offence if he uses, or causes or permits another to use, a motor vehicle
that the use of the motor vehicle involves a danger
… if the vehicle is not roadworthy?
Who is criminally responsible…
Criminal liability…
… relating to the way the vehicle was driven
law to regulatory sanctions?
… if the offence does not arise out of the way the vehicle was driven… eg:
Possible responsibility: registered keepers, licensed operators…
Criminal liability…
A digital highway code? Rules vs Standards Some difficult scenarios ▪ Edging through pedestrians? ▪ Should AVs ever mount the curb? ▪ Avoiding animals
Illustration by Paul Blow for POLITICO
“Machine factors”
automatedvehicles@lawcommission.gov.uk