Report on the Legal Challenges of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

PETRAS’s Standards, Governance and Policy Stream and Pinsent Mason’s have produced a report looking at how the emergence of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) continues to create many new legal challenges.

The PETRAS research staff who contributed to the article consisted of the Standards, Governance and Policy Stream team (Irina Brass, Leonie Tanczer, Madeline Carr and Jason Blackstock) and Prof Carsten Maple (Co-I of the Privacy and Trust Stream of the PETRAS IoT Research Hub).

The team contributed with a revised article in the new edition of the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: The Emerging Legal Challenges Report, published by Pinsent Masons. The report, entitled “Unbundling the emerging cyber-physical risks in connected and autonomous vehicles”, takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the readiness of current regulatory approaches to vehicle safety and cybersecurity, ownership, liability, and data protection in CAVs.

A key message from the report expresses the importance of establishing interdisciplinary research questions and investigations, which is at the core of the PETRAS IoT Hub. In order to fully understand the implications of CAVs on current and future legal and regulatory regimes, the article suggests that we need to take an interdisciplinary approach that bridges political science, international relations, information security and the current legal practice. This article and collaboration between SGP, Warwick and Pinsent Masons is a true reflection of it.

This is a successful, ongoing partnership between PETRAS and Pinsent Masons. The report can be downloaded from the Pinsent Mason’s website here.

A link to the previous news coverage of the 2017 report on the UCL website can be found here.