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McLachlan, S, Neil, M, Dube, K, Bogani, R, Fenton, N and Schaffer, B (2022) Smart automotive technology adherence to the Law: (De)Constructing Road Rules for Autonomous System Development, Verification and Safety. Journal of Law and Information Technology. ISSN 0967-0769
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Abstract
Driving is an intuitive task that requires skills, constant alertness and vigilance for unexpected events. The driving task also requires long concentration spans focusing on the entire task for prolonged periods, and sophisticated negotiation skills with other road users, including wild animals. Modern motor vehicles include an array of smart assistive and autonomous driving systems capable of subsuming some, most, or in limited cases, all of the driving task. Building these smart automotive systems requires software developers with highly technical software engineering skills, and now a lawyer’s in-depth knowledge of traffic legislation as well. This paper presents an approach for deconstructing the complicated legalese of traffic law and representing its requirements and flow. Our approach (de)constructs road rules in legal terminology and specifies them in structured English logic that is expressed as Boolean logic for automation and Lawmaps for visualisation. We demonstrate an example using these tools leading to the construction and validation of a Bayesian Network model. We strongly believe these tools to be approachable by programmers and the general public, useful in development of Artificial Intelligence to underpin motor vehicle smart systems, and in validation to ensure these systems are considerate of the law when making decisions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Divisions: | Law |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2022 11:22 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2022 12:15 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/ijlit/eaac002 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16237 |
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