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Safety Expectations for Automated and Autonomous Vehicles: Liability Arising from Basic Technology vs. Future Technology

Ekkehard Helmig | 06/26/2017

The legal issues in connection with designing, manufacturing, distributing and using automated or autonomous cars still remain largely unresolved. Download this 16-page whitepaper for a detailed overview of where liability lies for the future scenery of self-driving cars, and the safety expectations.

  • Social acceptance of risky products
  • Today’s sound liability regime
  • Increasing recall numbers
  • Basic technology vs. future technology
  • Consumer protection
  • Prima facie evidence through successful hacker attack
  • European law
  • Increased justification pressure
  • Supplier-manufacturer-relationship
  • Driver’s liability

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