Data Drive Legal Regimes for Automated Vehicles

Governments around the world are paying more attention to data collected and used by automated vehicles (AVs), developing guidance, policy, law, and regulation focusing on AV data and/or relating existing legal regimes to emerging concerns about AV data. Drawing from a project researching AV legal regimes in several countries and an associated panel at ARTS23, this paper distills key themes of legal regimes in Australia, China, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom when it comes to AV data. Those themes are safety, cybersecurity, and privacy, which in turn relate to liability, and national security. Governments balance those interests in different ways. AV progress from development to commercialization will likely influence that balance over time, allowing for more refined treatment of liability, in particular.