If a driverless vehicle crashes, the vehicle owner will be held responsible. In this respect reports “Parliamentary newspaper”, referring to the draft law developed by the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. According to the document, in some cases, the manufacturer of the unmanned vehicle and the dispatcher operating it could be punished.
“If there is a drone accident, who will be responsible? The Ministry of Transport proposed to be guided by the general principles contained in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which establish the “innocent liability of the owner of the source of increased danger.” The other two articles of the bill state that the unmanned vehicle manufacturer may also be punished if it is proven that the accident was caused by the design features of the vehicle or if the actions of the dispatcher who remotely controls the traffic cause a violation. traffic rules,” reports the publication.
If the bill is passed, unmanned vehicles may appear on Russian roads in September 2025.
The experiment to release self-driving cars on the roads began in 2018. Such vehicles are located in Moscow, Tatarstan, St. It was tested in St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod regions and the Krasnodar Territory.
Earlier, in San Francisco’s Chinatown, a crowd surrounded him, drawing graffiti and set on fire Waymo’s driverless taxi. The reasons why people decided to destroy the car are not reported. The police hope to find and punish those responsible, as the process was recorded in photos and videos and published on social networks.
There is also the Waymo driverless taxi service from technology company Alphabet (which owns Google) in the US. announced Following the recall of 444 robotic vehicles due to two traffic accidents in Arizona in December 2023.
According to preliminary information, the system controlling Waymo vehicles could not accurately calculate the vehicle’s trajectory if the towed vehicle was partially loaded onto the tow truck.
Previously reportedIt was stated that Toyota will broadcast an anime about the struggle between drivers and autonomous vehicles.