Graduation Year
2018
Date of Submission
5-2018
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics-Accounting
Reader 1
Professor James D. Taylor
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2018 Kendrick S Morris
Abstract
This thesis examines how legal liability may be assessed in the case of an autonomous vehicle collision. It begins with a comprehensive discussion of autonomous vehicles: their defining features, a history of their development, and their current technological challenges. This paper later discusses the benefits of autonomous vehicles and why a new legal framework for their commercial production is necessary to realize these benefits. In doing so, it analyzes recent legislative efforts surrounding autonomous vehicles and their implications. Lastly, it utilizes the current product liability regime and precedent set by previous semi-autonomous vehicle collisions to suggest how liability may be determined in future legal suits.
Recommended Citation
Morris, Kendrick, "“Who is liable?” An examination of how legal liability may be assessed in an autonomous vehicle collision" (2018). CMC Senior Theses. 1893.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1893
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
