Liability in the Case of Autonomous Cars in Romania

The liability is based in the Romanian contemporary civil law on the idea of culpa; still, there are cases when the liability has an objective nature, without culpa, founded on the idea of guarantee, based on the activity risk, the authority risk or a combination of the previous two types of risk, in order to establish the support of the objective guarantee obligation. A type of objective tort liability is the liability for goods, where the central subject is the legal guardian. The liability for the traffic accidents caused by vehicles equipped with driver assistance systems is involved only under the conditions of the liability for one’s own actions; for the autonomous vehicles, the legal guardian of the accident causing vehicle during the automatic use, is held liable.