Driving Change: The Year Ahead in Autonomous Vehicles

In 2019, the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) industry experienced significant technological and regulatory advances that shifted the promise of the deployment of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs). Against this backdrop of an increasingly growing industry, we expect 2020 to be a year where the discussions around AVs shift from the grandiose to the granular. We highlight below the top legal issues relating to AVs for 2020.

• Vehicles (Vehicle to Vehicle communication, "V2V");
  • Infrastructure (Vehicle to Infrastructure communication, "V2I");
  • Pedestrians (Vehicle to Pedestrian communication, "V2P");
  • Networks (Vehicle to Network communication, "V2N";
  • Devices (Vehicle to Device communication, "V2D";