Legal Implications for Autonomous Vehicles Mobility in Future Smart Cities

The paper analyzes the legal implications for autonomous vehicles deployment, as the preceding decade have demonstrated, especially in the automotive sector, the new ways of driving a car, based on the achieved results in the sensor technologies and data science research. This made possible the production of autonomous vehicles, which, in the future, will become smart cities common transportation. The deployment of autonomous vehicles will improve the effectiveness of road transportation, while at the same time, a riding experience that is both secure and pleasant. However, there are law enforcement difficulties and related legal issues rising up when such vehicles are deployed on the road. The goal of this paper is to address the legal concerns and discuss the current frameworks that allows the autonomous vehicles deployment on the public roads, and in addition, to propose solutions to such new legal challenges. It is envisaged that the present content, will serve as a source of impetus to the legal professional and governmental authorities, who are engaged in the process of building the legal base for using the autonomous vehicles in the intelligent cities of the future.