The looming dominance of autonomous vehicles has an impact on well-established areas of human activity such as the architecture of the cities and the transportation system. At the legal front, laws at the national and international level have become obsolete as technological changes have created new realities. At the same time, such technology
development is challenging long established principles of privacy, tort law, civil liability, criminal law, and insurance law.
Nowadays a number of countries, like Germany and the UK, have adopted legislation to allow the operation of autonomous vehicles, while others have been more reluctant. Lawmakers, in their effort to meet the fast technological pace, face a number of challenges. The question is how they decide to solve them.
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