Law and Autonomous Vehicles

Name: Law and Autonomous Vehicles
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Law and Autonomous VehiclesAuthor(s): Matthew Channon, Lucy McCormick, Kyriaki Noussia\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: CRC Press\nISBN-13: 9781138235960, 978-1138235960\nSynopsis\nWhen will we see autonomous vehicles on our roads? The answer is that to some degree, they are already here. Numerous organisations are testing fully autonomous prototypes on public roads in the UK, and even commercially available vehicles already have several quasi-autonomous features. KPMG has forecasted that the connected and autonomous vehicles market could be worth as much as 51 billion to the British economy by 2030 and could create some 30,000 new jobs over the same period.\n\nAccordingly, the UK and a number of other jurisdictions are already implementing legal reforms with a view to smoothing the path for this technology. Notably, Parliament has passed the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 dealing with the insurance of such vehicles, and c.