Autonomous vehicles are no longer just a futuristic dream; rather, automated driving technology is advancing so that such vehicles can become part of the mainstream. Automated driving technologies that everyone may be familiar with include adaptive cruise control (which automatically slows down or speeds up a vehicle to maintain a safe following distance), self-parking, automatic emergency braking (which can detect a possible collision and apply the brakes, or perhaps even steer the car, to avoid or lessen the collision), and lane centering (which automatically keeps the vehicle centered in a lane).

Originally published in the March–April 2023 edition of RAIL: The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law (Vol. 6, No. 2).