Problems of Ensuring Safe Operation of Highly Automated Vehicles Using the Potential of Public and Private Law

Abstract

The objective of the study was to critically comprehend several aspects that are significant for the theory of transport law and the practices of legal regulation of transport activities in the field of operation of highly automated vehicles. Those aspects concern relationship between the regulation of transport relations with the instruments of, respectively public and private law, associated with the typology of complex legal entities and the practices of economic sectors.Particular research tasks included a systemic legal analysis of the currently available number of modern scientific developments in the field of legal regulation of relations related to the use of highly automated vehicles, with the aim to reveal shortcomings, search for ways to eliminate conflicts and gaps in legal regulation. To achieve the research goals the study applied formal-dogmatic and systematic methods of special legal research. This approach allowed evaluation of a promising development vector of legal regulation in this area.The article largely summarises and expands the results of the research presented in earlier publications and proven in a scientific report during the Fifth Civil Readings in memory of Professor M. G. Pronina (March 16, 2023, Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus).Based on the results of the research, it was concluded that several gaps in the legal regulation of relations related to introduction and use of highly automated vehicles create significant obstacles to effective development of the transport system, increases thus the relevance of the proposals to determine directions for further research in this area. Improving the legislative and regulatory framework will have a significant positive impact on successful expansion of the use of highly automated vehicles in the transport industry and within the entire economy.