Autonomous Vessels: Legal, Regulatory, and Insurance Issues
Once thought to be decades away from incorporation into the maritime transportation network, advanced automation is already emerging as a viable alternative for some segments of the industry as a way to reduce operational costs, improve safety, and increase efficiency. The authors of this article discuss this new and disruptive technology, and its legal, regulatory, and insurance questions.
The maritime industry is currently experiencing a technological sea change resulting from the development of advanced automation on unmanned surface vessels. Once thought to be decades away from incorporation into the maritime transportation network, advanced automation is already emerging as a viable alternative for some segments of the industry as a way to reduce operational costs, improve safety, and increase efficiency. This new and disruptive technology, however, brings with it unique legal, regulatory, and insurance questions—the answers to which have been elusive.
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“Autonomous Vessels: Legal, Regulatory, and Insurance Issues,” by Alan M. Weigel and Thomas H. Belknap, Jr. in the May–June 2020 edition of RAIL: The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law (Vol. 3, No. 3), a Fastcase, Inc. publication. Reprinted with permission.
This article was first published in the November 2019 edition of Mainbrace, Blank Rome’s quarterly maritime newsletter.