Criminal legal issues related to the introduction of automatic driving cars

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12972
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Criminal law
• Research Institution: Chiba University
• Principal Investigator: Ishii Tetsuya 千葉大学, 大学院社会科学研究院, 教授 (20351869)
• Research Collaborator: Hilgendorf Eric
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 刑法 / 自動運転 / ロボット / 製造物責任 / 道路交通法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

When a human accident occurs due to "automatic driving car", the possibility of pursuit of criminal responsibility and its requirements become a problem. In this case, depending on whether it was a partial automatic operation or a complete automatic operation, riding in an automated driving car, criminal responsibility of the person using it, a person who sold the automatic driving automobile, and automatic Criminal responsibilities of those who manufactured the driving automobile must be examined respectively.
In Japanese criminal theory, we take judgment of liability attributable retroactively to the back person easily in terms of both causality and attribution of sanctity, so the responsibilities of sellers and manufacturers are limited immediately. In the short term, we must accept the current debate about criminal responsibility.

Free Research Field

刑事法