Liability and Automation: Issues and Challenges for Socio-technical Systems

Who is responsible for accidents in highly automated systems? How do we apportion liability among the various participants in complex socio-technical organisations? How can different liability regulations at different levels (supranational, national, local) be harmonized? How do we provide for accountability, while promoting safety? These and other questions are being addressed by the ALIAS (Addressing Liability Impact of Automated Systems) project. In this paper the authors present the outline framework of the project, its objectives, and some preliminary results: in particular, the authors present a framework for liability in aviation, an analysis of real accidents and of a hypothetical case involving UAS according to a methodology developed in the project, and finally, the authors introduce the Legal Case, that is a methodological tool (currently under development) aimed at identifying and addressing liability issues of automated air traffic management (ATM) systems.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3233/AOP-130033
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2013 Giuseppe Contissa et al.
• Authors:
  • Contissa, Giuseppe
  • Laukyte, Migle
  • Sartor, Giovanni
  • Schebesta, Hanna
  • Masutti, Anna
  • Lanzi, Paola
  • Marti, Patrizia
  • Tomasello, Paola
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 79-98
• Serial:
  • Journal of Aerospace Operations
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: IOS Press
  • ISSN: 2211-002X
  • EISSN: 2211-0038
  • Serial URL: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/122263

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Automation; Crashes; Liability; Safety
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01494153
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 24 2013 9:15AM