Criminal Liability of Factory and Programme designer of autonomous Car in respect of their Injuries to humans

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Criminal law and Criminology, University of Tehran

2 Student of Master of Criminal law and Criminology, University of Tehran

10.22059/jqclcs.2023.255840.1297

Abstract

Nowadays, development of technology results in the production of autonomous cars. With no doubt, Iran will face the presence of these cars in near coming years. In June 2017, the first autonomous car was tested successfully in Iran, but the chief constable prevented using them because of lack of specific regulation and no clear Statute to the identification of the criminal liability for their injuries to humans. Therefore, this Paper will scrutinize if the current Iranian criminal law has the potentials of imposing criminal liability for the injuries. This research limited the discussion to the Factory and Program designer and analyses the subject by the descriptive-analytical approach. It finally concludes that because of limitation of nowadays science and current regulations, in some limited circumstances, conviction of factories and designers is not possible, however, in most cases, it is possible to prosecute and convict the factory and designer and Iran is not faced with lack of regulation in this respect

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