Current Issues of Criminal Law Regulation of Wrongful Use of Self-Driving Vehicles

Abstract

Transport security, as part of national security, is designed to provide comprehensive protection for the transport industry. However, the legislator does not fully take into account the new current transportation security threats, which are due to the contemporary development of science engineering and technology. Self-driving vehicles are starting to be implemented intensively, meanwhile, legal regulation of their operation is clearly lagging behind moving forward progress. At the same time, the multiplicity of actors involved in building and maintaining these types of transport, as well as the software, accounts for the difficulty in identifying the culprit in creating threats to transport security and causing harm as a result of their misuse. The question on the forms and degrees of responsibility still lacks amswers. In the light of the foregoing, the article explores topical issues of legal regulation of the exploitation of self-driving vehicles. Their definition, classification, difference from other aircrafts are analyzed. The issues of establishing criminal responsibility for wrongful use of drones are studied.