{"id":1405,"date":"2020-06-16T08:38:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T05:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sohjoabaltic.eu\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2020-06-16T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T08:19:18","slug":"legal-framework-of-automated-driving-in-the-baltic-sea-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sohjoabaltic.eu\/et\/legal-framework-of-automated-driving-in-the-baltic-sea-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Framework of Automated Driving in the Baltic Sea Region"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The upcoming years are crucial to the development of automated driving in Europe. The automated (developing to autonomous) technology has great potential to serve the public interest by improving the environmental sustainability of traffic and making transit safer and more enjoyable for everyone.<\/p>\n

Sohjoa Baltic project<\/strong> has researched, promoted, and piloted from 2017 onwards the use of driverless, electric minibuses in public transport. When planning deployment of a robot bus pilot, the central question is, whether the innovation can be implemented within the existing legal framework.<\/p>\n

What are the legal obstacles on the way to sound use cases of driverless transport? Matth<\/strong>ias Hartwig<\/strong>, Head of mobility department of Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility IKEM <\/strong>Berlin presented the legal situation at the Sohjoa Baltic’s Autonomous public transport webinar<\/a> shared tips from legal perspective when implementing autonomous driving to public transport:<\/p>\n