Unmanned delivery vehicles (rovers) must obtain legal status in order to resolve all issues related to their operation. State Duma Deputy Yaroslav Nilov sent letters with a corresponding proposal to the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Transport of Russia.
I believe it is necessary to determine the legal status of delivery robots, define the boundaries of their use in the urban environment, and establish responsibility for possible incidents involving them.
According to him, in the event of an accident or harm to health, damage to citizens' property, the compensation mechanism "should be transparent".
Nilov recalled that robot couriers have now become full-fledged participants in road traffic. As part of the experiment, they are used in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Krasnaya Polyana, Kazan, but they plan to scale this practice to the Moscow region and Nizhny Novgorod.
Consequently, the deputy emphasized, it is necessary to amend the traffic rules and regulate other norms relating to unmanned delivery vehicles. In particular, to develop appropriate amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses, Nilov summarized.