Critical features of autonomous road transport from the perspective of technological regulation and law

Transportation Research Procedia

Volumn 27, Issue , 2017, Pages 791-798

  Bartolini, Cesare ^a   Tettamanti, Tamás ^b   Varga, István ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

autonomous vehicle; law; liability; standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85039941956     PISSN: 23521457     EISSN: 23521465     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2017.12.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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