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Dentons Announces Global Autonomous Vehicles Index

By Eric Tanenblatt, Michael Ledgett, Michael Ledgett, Peter Stockburger, Abbie Pokorny, Martin Fanning, Ben Allen, and Edric Pan
May 29, 2020
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Key requirements for testing and deployment of driverless cars globally, presented and updated by the Driverless Commute

The world is still years away from the time when an autonomous car can safely and legally transport its passengers to any destination. But that doesn’t mean self-driving technology isn’t already informing how we design and operate cars today. While technologists and automakers cautiously navigate this thorny paradigm shift, policymakers and regulators have also struggled to strike the right balance between the imperative to protect consumers and the public and the necessity to not stifle innovation and sector development.

The result, unsurprisingly, has been a complex global patchwork of testing, certification and liability frameworks, making compliance across multiple regulatory regimes a unique challenge for the sector.

Dentons is pleased to announce the launch of our Global Autonomous Vehicles Index, a complimentary resource that provides effortless access to a database of self-driving regulations in more than 15 countries and all 50 US states, allowing users to create custom comparison charts across multiple jurisdictions.

With the tool, users can select up to three countries or US states and learn how they compare in following areas:

  • Do regulations permit, restrict or prohibit the testing of driverless vehicles?
  • Are safety standards for manufacture, use and operation of driverless vehicles enforced through self-certification or an approval or application process?
  • Are there any specific hardware or software requirements for driverless vehicles?
  • What are the insurance requirements related to driverless-vehicle testing?
  • Are backup drivers or remote operators required to test driverless vehicles? What are the requirements for test driver training and licensing?
  • Are autonomous vehicle networks permitted?

This interactive index is the latest feature provided by Dentons’ multidisciplinary, multi-jurisdictional Global Autonomous Vehicles practice.

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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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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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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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Peter Stockburger

About Peter Stockburger

Peter Stockburger is the office managing partner for the Firm’s San Diego office, a member of the Firm’s Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies group, and co-lead of the Firm’s Autonomous Vehicle practice. With a focus on data privacy and security, Peter works with clients of all sizes and maturity to build and shore up their privacy and security programs, deploy technology, enhance compliance and stakeholder confidence, take new products to market, work through data governance and retention challenges, navigate workplace disputes, and harness emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

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Abbie Pokorny

About Abbie Pokorny

Abbie is a senior associate in Dentons’ London office. She is a member of the Energy, Transport and Infrastructure practice group.

Abbie’s focus is on greenfield project developments and long-term commercial contracts. Her experience spans both traditional greenfield infrastructure projects and infratech projects and covers the UK, Western Europe, the Middle East and Australia.

Abbie’s particular capability lies in advising clients in relation to the development of projects in the rail, road and power sectors to take to tender and in relation to bidding on infrastructure projects. She also has a background in mergers and acquisitions matters.

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Martin Fanning

About Martin Fanning

Martin is a partner and Technology, Media & Telecoms Sector Head, based in Dentons’ London office.

Martin has advised public bodies, financial institutions and other large corporates on a wide range of complex information technology, intellectual property and data protection matters for over 15 years. He advises regularly on business process and IT outsourcings and cross-border sourcing and procurement arrangements for major FTSE and Fortune businesses. He also has a significant advisory practice across a wide range of non-contentious areas, including IT, cloud and SaaS arrangements; digital content; IP licensing and development arrangements; and e-commerce and advertising compliance matters. Martin is also a member of Dentons’ Global Data Privacy team and advises on a range of business-critical data protection matters from BAU compliance to complex international transfer, BCRs and data audit projects.

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Ben Allen

About Ben Allen

Ben is a partner in the dispute resolution and litigation team and has acted in complex and sensitive commercial disputes for both government and private sector clients, including class actions, financial services representative proceedings, financial products, commercial property and technology procurement disputes. Ben also leads the Australia Region white collar and government investigations team, acting for clients in all areas of organisational risk including fraud, bribery and corruption, data privacy and corporate wrongdoing.

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Edric Pan

About Edric Pan

Edric Pan is a senior partner in our Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice groups.

In over 21 years of litigation practice, Edric has been involved in many high profile matters and has successfully represented clients up to the Court of Appeal, Singapore’s highest court.

His experience spans a wide range of civil and commercial matters, including international commercial disputes, shareholder disputes, breaches of directors’ and fiduciary duties, multi-million dollar insurance claims, employment-related disputes, non-compete disputes, misuse of confidential information, professional negligence and professional disciplinary proceedings.

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