The college of law at the University of Baghdad discussed a master’s thesis in the private law of the student (Ola Maan Mohammed), tagged with (civil liability for damage to self-driving vehicles), on Sunday, corresponding to 11/8/2024 at the model courtroom at the college.
The thesis aims to explain the concept of autonomous vehicles and the levels of autonomous driving, as well as to evaluate the experience of using this type of vehicle in terms of the pros and cons associated with it and to indicate the different directions of comparative legislation that adopted this type of vehicle in regulating legal issues related to it and to know the legal basis of civil liability for damage to autonomous vehicles.
The thesis included three chapters, the first of which dealt with the nature of self-driving vehicles, the second chapter dealt with the basis of civil liability for damage to self-driving vehicles, and the third chapter dealt with insurance for civil liability for damage to self-driving vehicles.
The thesis came out with several recommendations, the most important of which is the recommendation of the Iraqi legislator to enact special legislation that addresses the system of liability for damages of artificial intelligence applications, including autonomous vehicles, because of the inappropriateness of the traditional liability rules found in Iraqi law to compensate for the damage of this type of vehicles, especially fully autonomous vehicles, we recommend the Iraqi legislator to amend the traffic law no.8 for a year 2019 so that autonomous vehicles are included among the vehicles authorized to obtain a license to drive on roads, with the need to specify the requirements for obtaining this license.
