Automatic vehicles and legal/insurance risks. A new British “quasi-legislative” point of observation and glimpses of liability in tort in Italy

Abstract

The chapter discusses the legal concept of automated motor vehicles pursuant to the UK statute, as well as the linkage with the pertinent insurance coverage, this analysis being carried out also in the light of the potential reverber-ations on the Italian legal system. Of the latter, on the other hand, the UK legislation may be regarded as the forerunner. The automated vehicles, including the most extreme forms of driverless vehicles, will seemingly be used in the UK in the imminent future. Meanwhile, in 2018, a piece of legislation has been passed whose purposes is to legislate on both the insurance contract (and the way the liability shall be apportioned among insurer, owner and, particularly, the manufac-turer) and the administrative law (therefore, the regulation) of the automated vehi-cles, focused on a register kept by the Secretary of State.

Document Type

Journal Article

Volume

8

School

School of Business and Law

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Springer

Comments

Della Giustina, C., & de Gioia Carabellese, P. (2024). Automatic vehicles and legal/insurance risks. A new British “quasi-legislative” point of observation and glimpses of liability in tort in Italy. In Cross-Disciplinary Impacts on Insurance Law: ESG Concerns, Financial and Technological Innovation (pp. 177-199). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38526-1_8

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10.1007/978-3-031-38526-1_8