Criminal liability of self-driving vehicles under Hungarian criminal law

As self-driving evolves day by day, the accidents attributed to such technology will increase as well. If the legal environment does not prepare for these cases, the ‘liabilityvacuum’ caused by the diverging court practices could lead to the rejection of the self-driving vehicles both by the consumers and the legislators. I am approaching the various questions posed by this technology from a continental standpoint, therefore the research examines the liability of the natural persons behind the technology. If we can provide possible answers to these issues, then the criminal liability of legal persons – an unfamiliar concept from the standpoint of the majority of the continental criminal law regimes – does not have to be applied to answer the central questions. If the national rules can determine the obligations of the natural persons travelling in a self-driving vehicle, their criminal liability can be decided accordingly and there is no need to create new offences.