Not long ago, some media reported that the British legal regulator proposed that when a self-driving car is involved in a traffic accident, the driver and occupants of the car will not have to bear any responsibility, and the corresponding legal responsibility will be the automatic driving technology research and development enterprises or car companies. It is worth noting that the traffic accidents classified here include, but are not limited to, traffic accidents such as collisions, scratches and other types of vehicle damage, as well as illegal acts such as speeding and running red lights.
Since this is the case, don't you have to worry about deducting points for your driver's license in the future? The answer, of course, is no. The premise of the British legal agency to put forward the proposal is that the vehicle with automatic driving has its own error caused by the accident, in order to automatic driving technology research and development enterprises or car companies to bear the responsibility, in fact, this is also easy to understand, if once the vehicle due to human factors in a traffic accident, the owner of the car will throw the "pot" to the vehicle itself, then the car driving on the road must be "no one in sight".
This proposal in the United Kingdom will bring a lot of pressure to many car companies and autonomous driving technology research and development companies, so that when the technology has not yet reached a certain height, they dare not "brag" about their own automatic driving technology as before, but can only say that they are "assisted driving" and publicize their own auxiliary driving system. In addition to promoting their technical level, the United Kingdom is more likely to see, should be to dispel people's skepticism about automatic driving, so that automatic driving technology is accepted by more people, after all, if the public uses automatic driving technology to have a traffic accident, saving a lot of legal responsibility trouble, the property damage caused by it does not have to bear, which is the general public are happy to see, once the automatic driving is popularized, it will make a complete revolution in the traditional way of travel, and the traffic order will be raised to a new level.
After talking about "benefits", let's talk about its "disadvantages". If the proposal is adopted, car companies or autonomous driving technology research and development companies will make the algorithm of automatic driving more "safe" design, for example, when passing through the intersection, the original design speed of 30km/h, in order to reserve more "safe" response time, this speed may be further reduced to prevent sudden "danger", or, when the distance with the car is set, the original 5m distance limit will be increased to 10m, so as to prevent the safety hazards caused by the sudden "sudden braking" of the car in front. It also makes it easier to add plugs to other vehicles. It has to be said that in the face of the law, even the strongest technology companies, can not compete with it, in the technology has not reached a higher level, automatic driving technology research and development companies will have to add more safety redundancy design to the driving "algorithm" of the vehicle, with the meaning of real automatic driving of the first batch of vehicles, its price may not be able to enter the homes of ordinary people.
So what are the relevant regulations on autonomous driving technology in the mainland? Mainland laws and regulations on autonomous vehicles are still in the exploratory stage, and there is no particularly clear requirement, and the general provisions on motor vehicle management should be complied with before the relevant laws are introduced. In terms of legal liability, the responsible entity for traffic accidents or violations caused by autonomous vehicles has not yet been clarified, and the relevant laws on autonomous vehicles need to be improved.