On 6 and 7 June, the UAB School of Prevention and Integral Safety and Security (Escola de Prevenció i Seguretat Integral, EPSI) organises the International Congress on Autonomous Driving and Legal Safety of Transport as part of the same project funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science, Innovation and Universities, and which includes Professor Eliseo Sierra as principal investigator. Speakers will focus on the legal, social and ethical aspects of an issue which, according to Montserrat Iglesias, director of the Prevention and Integral Safety and Security at the FUAB Training School, is something "already present" among us.
According to Iglesias, who spoke at the opening of the congress, the fact that vehicles can drive autonomously, which until recently was unimaginable, has given rise to the "illusion of reducing traffic accidents", among other hypotheses, but at the same time raises doubts and challenges in aspects such as, precisely, safety. "Should human intelligence lag behind artificial intelligence?", she reflected. The issue of autonomous driving also has legal, ethical and even urban planning dimensions, as explained the director of EPSI, who announced that, throughout the congress, experts will discuss a multitude of research and experiences related to this new reality.
