Two unmanned vehicles collided and who should bear the responsibility

　　December 23, Beijing time, Bloomberg published an article today that, with the development of driverless cars, collided two driverless car accident is almost inevitable, so who is responsible? The current law is difficult to answer this question. But lawyers pointed out that including driverless car manufacturer multiple principals, and even State Governments may need to be held accountable.

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　　If two unmanned vehicles collided causing traffic accidents, who should take responsibility? The answer to this question is: is not clear. But lawyers have seen the opportunities brought about by the traffic accident. They say, computer downtime, they control car collided. Lawyers say due to the driver's seat without a driver, they may require almost all parties to bear the responsibility.

　　Lawyer Calvin Dean (Kevin Dean), "said that in such cases, many people are likely to be accused, including computer programmer, computer manufacturers, algorithm design, Google, maps, companies and even State Governments. For lawyers, driverless car accidents will be fertile. "

　　Google and other makers of driverless cars is believed to eliminate traffic accidents. Supporters say the future, driverless cars could "wipe out" personal injury traffic accidents occurred. But until then, among the first generation of driverless cars, as well as with a conventional car occur collisions are inevitable.

　　Potential obstacles

　　United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the former owner, partner, Venable LLP law firm Dawei·sitelikelan (David Strickland) said, "this situation may occur in the future: does not know who has the responsibility of traffic accident. This is the beginning of the driverless car is more difficult to be accepted by consumers. "

　　Consumer liability concerns will affect the acceptance of driverless cars. This is Volvo, Google subsidiary Mercedes-Benz, Daimler announced that take responsibility for their driverless cars cause. Moschino iPhone case

　　Director of Government Affairs for Volvo andesi·yougensen (Anders Eugensson) said, "we want customers to believe that the technology is reliable, and that is why we are committed to responsible for the traffic accident. We feel that, without such a commitment, we will not sell products to customers. "

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　　But lawyers and not the driverless car manufacturers this commitment seriously, that it is a marketing strategy. Lawyer Dawei·bulaite (David Bright) said that "every car manufacturer has such a promise: If the problem is in our cars, we'll definitely take responsibility. Soon after the accident occurred, they will say: our car is no problem. "

　　Unpredictable

　　So difficult the problem is, under current law, owners – usually drivers, need to assume responsibility for the accident. If the owner wants to put the responsibility on manufacturers, he or she must prove that the manufacturers fault. But modern products liability law and regulations do not involve unmanned vehicles.

　　Strickland said, "the laws must be revised. There is no legal provision known as driverless car manufacturers need to take economic liability for traffic accidents. "

　　In a traffic accident, a driverless car owners may not need to take responsibility, particularly as they slept in the back seat or "updating Facebook status" case.

　　Not clearly defined

　　Assistant Professor of law, University of South Carolina bulaiente·woke·shimisi (Bryant Walker Smith) said, "no one wants to be prosecuted for their inability to prevent traffic accidents or arrests. "

　　Therefore, involved in an accident the first driverless car owners may sue unmanned technology developers, for such cases to establish jurisprudence. This type of accident is a test of the current insurance system.

　　No clear provisions in the existing case law. In court records and automatic braking or lane keeping unmanned technologies limited.

　　You Gensen noted that Volvo has asked regulators for driverless cars on the road to develop uniform rules, it was concerned that "United States driverless cars of different States will have different rules of the road". Moschino case

　　Google driverless cars to be used to provide a taxi service

　　Driverless cars said the draft rules proposed this month in California, someone is sitting in the driver's seat, ready to manipulate the car. Bill also forces manufacturers to develop monthly reports are driverless cars. Google says it on the draft "serious disappointment".

　　Google will quickly promote the advent of driverless cars. People familiar with the matter said Google plans unmanned vehicle sector into an independent enterprise, and using unmanned vehicles to provide a taxi service.

　　Although lawyers focus on unmanned vehicle safety, in the United States arose as a result of the 33,000 injuries every year in traffic accidents, human error still accounted for more than 90%. Driverless car will drastically reduce the number of such accidents.

　　Smith said, "If the unfortunate enough to be hit by a car, people should want to hurt themselves is a driverless car, perhaps because people can give one or several richer companies claim. "

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