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Global Guide to Autonomous Vehicles 2021

By Eric Tanenblatt, Crawford Schneider, Michael Malterer, Henry (Litong) Chen, Michael Ledgett, Kurt B. Gerstner, Ben Allen, Marcell Szőnyi, Şahin Ardıyok, and Karol Laskowski
January 29, 2021
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The autonomous vehicle industry has faced the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside the entire world economy. Our collective understanding of transportation, and human interaction more generally, has significantly shifted. However, despite the industry-wide headwinds significant technological and regulatory progress has been made. We are closer than ever to the widespread use of autonomous vehicles. With that said, barriers and questions remain

Drawing on the knowledge and resources of its global, multidisciplinary Autonomous Vehicles practice, and building upon our 2020 Global Guide, Dentons’ “Global Guide to Autonomous Vehicles 2021” dissects the front burner policy issues, legislative and regulatory changes, new legal precedents and leading global trends shaping the sector.

In particular, the guide focuses on the following nine countries whose governments or automotive and technology industries have taken unique approaches to supporting the nascent autonomous vehicles industry:

  • Australia
  • Canada
  • China
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Poland
  • South Korea
  • Turkey
  • United States

The 2021 Global Guide builds upon previous efforts by adding four new leading countries — Hungary, Poland, South Korea and Turkey. For each country, the report examines five key areas: regulatory landscape; driverless vehicle testing and deployment; liability; data privacy and security; and telecommunications and 5G. Finally, we cover the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global autonomous transportation industry.

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We hope that Dentons’ Global Guide to Autonomous Vehicles provides you with a closer look at the developing political and legal landscape for autonomous vehicles, and the specific opportunities and challenges across key areas that will define the global mobility revolution.

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Please also check out our Global Autonomous Vehicles Index. This interactive online tool provides effortless access to key self-driving regulations worldwide and allows users to create custom comparison charts across multiple jurisdictions.

Eric Tanenblatt

About Eric Tanenblatt

Eric Tanenblatt is the Global Chair of Public Policy and Regulation of Dentons, the world's largest law firm. He also leads the firm's US Public Policy Practice, leveraging his three decades of experience at the very highest levels of the federal and state governments.

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Crawford Schneider

About Crawford Schneider

Crawford Schneider is an associate managing director in Dentons' Public Policy and Regulation practice focusing on matters involving state and local government affairs, including legislative/regulatory research and drafting, land use and zoning, economic development, public-private partnerships, public policy surrounding disruptive transportation, and international trade and investment.

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Michael Malterer

About Michael Malterer

Dr. Michael Malterer is a Corporate and M&A partner in the Munich office of Dentons. Michael is a global automotive expert and car enthusiast, focusing on transactions and strategic commercial work in the automotive and related manufacturing sectors in Europe, co-leading the automotive and manufacturing groups of Dentons in Germany and Europe. Michael advises clients on all aspects of connectivity, autonomous driving technology, sharing, and electrified driving.

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Henry (Litong) Chen

About Henry (Litong) Chen

Before joining Dentons, Henry Chen was AP Compliance Director of Ford Motor Company responsible for monitoring and managing compliance risks under various jurisdictions, and conducting investigations and compliance reviews on unusual events.

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Michael Ledgett

About Michael Ledgett

Michael F. Ledgett centres his practice on corporate and commercial law, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, public private partnerships, and the transportation industry.

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 Kurt B. Gerstner

About Kurt B. Gerstner

Kurt Gerstner is a senior foreign attorney at Dentons Lee, where he advises and helps clients prevent and resolve disputes.  He does this, using his more than 37 years of experience as a trial lawyer and the more than 1,000 civil litigation and international arbitration matters he has handled during his career.

His litigation and arbitration experience encompasses a wide variety of disputes involving many different types of businesses and industries.  Kurt’s product liability defense experience is particularly extensive, covering such industries as automotive, aviation and maritime products, consumer products and appliances, construction equipment and materials, industrial equipment, drug and medical devices, chemicals, sports and recreation products, clothing, food products, firearms and others.  He has served as national, regional, state and local counsel for many of the largest and most well-known companies in the world.  Many of the cases he has defended have involved deaths, very serious life-altering injuries and/or enormous property damage claims.

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Ben Allen

About Ben Allen

With 20 years as a litigator and dispute resolution lawyer, Ben has a reputation for achieving the best commercial outcomes for his clients with a calm, measured approach to the dispute process. Ben is recognised in The Best Lawyers in Australia 2020 in the area of Alternative Dispute Resolution and as a leading lawyer in the area of anti-bribery and corruption in Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific 2019 Guide.

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Marcell Szőnyi

About Marcell Szőnyi

Marcell Szőnyi is a partner in Dentons’ Budapest office. He focuses primarily on the areas of real estate, corporate and financing transactional work, and commercial contracts. He has been involved in numerous acquisitions and disposals and high-value commercial contracts, as well as IP work. He is also a pioneering expert and an enthusiast advocate of artificial intelligence and automated driving technologies, and as such an active member of Dentons’ Global Autonomous Vehicle services group.

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Şahin Ardıyok

About Şahin Ardıyok

Şahin Ardıyok is the Head of Istanbul Competition law, Public Policy and Regulation team. Under this scope he has extensive knowledge and practical experience in competition law, government affairs and regulation, energy, telecommunications, PPP, project finance and international trade law.

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 Karol Laskowski

About Karol Laskowski

Karol Laskowski is a partner at Dentons’ Warsaw office and the Head of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice team.

Karol focuses on media and telecommunications law. From the very beginning of his career, he has been advising major television broadcasters, satellite and cable operators, music publishers, as well as telecom operators and film producers. His clients include foreign companies and individuals doing business in Poland and CEE. Karol handles various projects, including IP, collective management of rights, sports law, gambling, M&A and legal compliance in the area of media and telecommunications.

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