Automated driving regulations – where are we now?

Sever, Tina (author), Contissa, Giuseppe (author)

Self-driving vehicles are a tool that contributes significantly to sustainable development, both nationally and globally, as their positive effects extend beyond national borders. For their wider use, we need an appropriate regulatory framework as well as certain technical capabilities. It is not only technically sophisticated vehicles that are important, but also the infrastructure that supports automated driving. This paper analyses the legal frameworks of selected states, aside from those frameworks at international and EU level. The research indicates that national regulations often concentrate on the testing phase of automated vehicles. Furthermore, these rules frequently require a certain degree of driver involvement, highlighting that some form of human control remains essential. It seems that regulation does not match the speed of technological development or is sometimes somehow unsynchronized with it.

• Language: English
• Keywords: accountability, automated vehicle, driver, safety standards, self-driving car, traffic laws
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 1-19
• Numbering: Vol. 24
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-154820
• UDC: 35:004.89:629.331
• ISSN on article: 2590-1982
• DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2024.101033
• COBISS.SI-ID: 187542019
• Publication date in RUL: 04.03.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives
• Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
• ISSN: 2590-1982
• COBISS.SI-ID: 4988360

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: odgovornost, avtomatizirano vozilo, voznik, varnostni standardi, samovozeči avtomobil, prometni predpisi