Responsabilidade civil em acidentes de trânsito envolvendo veículos autônomos

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes possible the existence of autonomous vehicles (AV), which are capable of navegating on highways and interpretating traffic without the interference of a human driver operating its systems. This study aims to discuss the autonomous vehicles and its consequences on tort law. Inevitably, it is a kind of technology that brings many impacts, including social, criminal and civil ones. These, the civil impacts, are our focus. With such changes, there’s a need of adapting and debating the compatibility of our laws to this new, modernized by autonomous vehicles reality. Therefore, this assignment addresses tort law and the responsibility of those involved in car accidents caused by autonomous vehicles. To do so, a bibliographic research was employed by the present study, alongside inductive method and a theoretical and descriptive approach. The AV debate is divided in 3 chapters: the first one discusses AI, the second one, AV, and the third, the application of tort law to the damage caused by AV. This study follows that sequence in order to conclude that the ideal solution depends on an analysis of the case, according to which the liability can be applied by the Brazilian CC or CDC. As it will be seen, most times it’s the application of liability without fault.