University of Tabriz Jurisprudence and Islamic Law 28210891 15 34 2024 03 30 Civil Liability of Software Defects in Autonomous Vehicles and the Inefficiency of Existing Rules, With a Review of US Law Civil Liability of Software Defects in Autonomous Vehicles and the Inefficiency of Existing Rules, With a Review of US Law 115 147 18646 10.22034/law.2024.55488.3245 FA Nahid Parsa PhD in Private Law, Mazandaran University Journal Article 2023 02 19 <em>Artificial intelligence can provide numerous benefits for humanity, one of which is fully autonomous vehicles. This research specifically deals with the civil liability of software defects in fully autonomous cars. Software plays a key role in self-driving vehicles. The traditional principles of responsibility will no longer meet the new needs. In the case of a defect arising in the software update, who is responsible, the designer or the software updater? Does the software manufacturer have a supervisory responsibility after releasing the product to the market? With careful and deep consideration of the existing laws, we will find that the traditional principles of responsibility still hold the software manufacturer as the final producer responsible for vicarious liability, and although the supervisory responsibility is not provided for in Iranian law, the responsibility of the software manufacturer should be identified after the product is released to the market.</em> <em>Artificial intelligence can provide numerous benefits for humanity, one of which is fully autonomous vehicles. This research specifically deals with the civil liability of software defects in fully autonomous cars. Software plays a key role in self-driving vehicles. The traditional principles of responsibility will no longer meet the new needs. In the case of a defect arising in the software update, who is responsible, the designer or the software updater? Does the software manufacturer have a supervisory responsibility after releasing the product to the market? With careful and deep consideration of the existing laws, we will find that the traditional principles of responsibility still hold the software manufacturer as the final producer responsible for vicarious liability, and although the supervisory responsibility is not provided for in Iranian law, the responsibility of the software manufacturer should be identified after the product is released to the market.</em> https://law.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_18646_55a60f859f172c127ee7194249a59b9a.pdf