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4. Other areas of robotics: automotive and medical sectors
4.1 Robots in the automotive sector: "delegated driving" vehicles
Under article L 121-1 of the French Highway Code, "the driver of a vehicle is criminally liable for offences committed while driving the said vehicle".
What happens when maneuvers are no longer managed by the driver? What is the legal impact of robotization, which is also affecting the automotive sector with the development of "delegated driving" vehicles that make driving easier for users? French law has very recently taken an interest in this advance in automated road mobility. The publication of Ordinance no. 2021-443 of April 14, 2021 on the criminal liability regime applicable in the event of the circulation of a vehicle with delegated driving and its conditions of use("the Ordinance") has...
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Regulations
Council Directive 85/374/EEC of July 25, 1985 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning liability for defective products.
United States: Restatement 3rd of Torts: Products Liability, Foreword (1997).
Japan: Consumer Contract Act, law no. 61 of May 12, 2000.
Directive 2006/42/EC of the...
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