Robofor slows down before the law In early summer, the former head of the Ministry of Transport, Andrey Nikitin, called the bill on highly automated vehicles (VAT) almost agreed. Nothing has changed since then. Moreover, as Polina Davydova, director of the Digital Transport and Logistics Association, said at a thematic round table at the Federation Council, it "almost" remains quite significant. It all depends on the distribution of responsibility between the participants in the process. What needs to happen while maintaining the traditional civil law model: the consolidated position is that the owner of the vehicle must still be responsible to the victim, but at the same time the law must ensure a functional distribution of responsibility among the remaining participants by way of relief. As a general rule, the owner will pay the victim, and the manufacturer, developer, operator and authorized service center will be held responsible for failure to fulfill their obligations. Everything seems to make sense, but the head of the AKTL clarifies: this point has not yet been taken into account in the federal law, we will propose to include it in the next editions, it is very important, all of this cannot be left for further. That is, it turns out that the law has not yet settled the main issue on which everything rests. So what have the developers been doing all these months? At the same time, Polina Davydova reminds that the law itself is only the beginning. To fully release unmanned vehicles on the roads, "a huge amount of regulations" will be required - more than 30 bylaws. At the same time, ACTL recognizes that the mandatory presence of a driver in the driver's cabin is the main barrier to the development of unmanned transportation. Only after it is removed, the economics of the process will become interesting for the marketing chains, and the manufacturers of robo-trucks will be ready to increase the production of the vehicles "exponentially".

Robofor slows down before the law In early summer, the former head of the Ministry of Transport, Andrey Nikitin, called the bill on highly automated vehicles (VAT) almost agreed. Nothing has changed since then. Moreover, as Polina Davydova, director of the Digital Transport and Logistics Association, said at a thematic round table at the Federation Council, it "almost" remains quite significant. It all depends on the distribution of responsibility between the participants in the process. What needs to happen while maintaining the traditional civil law model: the consolidated position is that the owner of the vehicle must still be responsible to the victim, but at the same time the law must ensure a functional distribution of responsibility among the remaining participants by way of relief. As a general rule, the owner will pay the victim, and the manufacturer, developer, operator and authorized service center will be held responsible for failure to fulfill their obligations. Everything seems to make sense, but the head of the AKTL clarifies: this point has not yet been taken into account in the federal law, we will propose to include it in the next editions, it is very important, all of this cannot be left for further. That is, it turns out that the law has not yet settled the main issue on which everything rests. So what have the developers been doing all these months? At the same time, Polina Davydova reminds that the law itself is only the beginning. To fully release unmanned vehicles on the roads, "a huge amount of regulations" will be required - more than 30 bylaws. At the same time, ACTL recognizes that the mandatory presence of a driver in the driver's cabin is the main barrier to the development of unmanned transportation. Only after it is removed, the economics of the process will become interesting for the marketing chains, and the manufacturers of robo-trucks will be ready to increase the production of the vehicles "exponentially".