Balough Pens Article on Driverless Car Legal Issues

(May 27, 2016) What advice attorneys need to give their clients on driverless cars is explored in an article by Richard C. Balough published by the American Bar Association’s Business Law Today.

The age of autonomous vehicles is coming soon. You may soon be seeing vehicles on the road with no drivers as part of today’s road testing of autonomous vehicles. This technology will require business attorneys to reinterpret existing laws, to re-examine privacy and data protection laws and rethink liability and insurance coverages.

For example, if a car is operating in a self-driving mode and there is an accident, who is liable? The non-driver? The software coder? The car maker? These topics are explored in the article, “Are Your Clients Ready for the Impact of Driverless Cars?”

Mr. Balough previously co-authored “Cyberterrorism on Wheels Are Today’s Cars Vulnerable to Attack?” which appeared in the November 2013 edition of Business Law Today. He also moderated a panel discussion at the ABA’s Business Law Section 2015 annual meeting on “Autonomous Vehicles: Steering Your Client around the Legal Potholes.”

Balough Law Offices is active in the Cyberspace Law Committee of the ABA. Cheryl Dancey Balough is vice chair of the committee. Mr. Balough co-chairs the Mobile and Connected Devices subcommittee.