LEGAL QUESTIONS ON THE APPEARANCE OF SELF-DRIVING CARS IN THE ROAD TRAFFIC WITH SPECIAL REGARD ON THE CIVIL LAW LIABILITY

Abstract

More, than a century has been expired, since Bálint KOLOSVÁRY published his work on the automobile law apropos of the adoption of the Austrian auto mobile act. In this work, he drew attention to the step-by-step transformation of the traditional, Roman law based liability approach. As a result of the technology’s fascinatingly fast development, cars appeared in the roads and brought up such liability questions, which could not be duly answered by the contemporary Hungarian tort law. During the 20th century, the use of motor vehicles became natural. Nowadays, the performance of the daily “logistic tasks” (e.g. shopping, traveling to the working place, bringing the children to nursery/school etc.) by car is a part of the people’s everyday routine. The legal regulation of the liability for the damages caused by on the roads en masse appearing motor vehicles, functions well, regarding provisions in the Hungarian
private law which are practically changeless since the depth of the 20th century.