Author: Narae Kim

The UCL Autonomous Shipping Project is pleased to announce that Dr Melis Özdel, Project Leader, has been cited in an article on the news and opinion website Vox. The article, by Rebecca Heilweil, is entitled ‘The unsinkable potential of autonomous boats’ and can be read in full here: https://www.vox.com/recode/23270179/sea-machines-mayflower-self-driving-boats-autonomous-ai Archived | Posted on 17 October 2022

The UCL Autonomous Shipping Project is pleased to announce that Project Leader, Dr Melis Özdel, has published an article in the Industrial Law Journal this month (October 2021). Dr Özdel’s article is titled: ‘Reconceptualising the Nautical Fault Exception in the Fog of Emerging Technologies.’ The nautical fault exception removes, to some extent, sea carriers’ liability…

The shipping industry is preparing for a revolution from labour-intensive to autonomous shipping. The world has already witnessed a number of prototypes undergoing trials so that the commercial operation of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) can one day become a reality. The progress reached so far suggests that we are no longer looking at the…

In The Economist of 4 September 2021, an article was published under the title ‘Is a self-driving car smarter than a seven-month-old?’. If you guessed, from the way the question is phrased, that the answer was ‘no’, you would have been entirely correct. Ultimately, the article (intentionally or not) puts out an implicit message that these self-driving…

The regulatory challenges relating to Marine Autonomous Surface Ships (“MASS”) involve two main areas of interest. First, there are the public law rules, covering safety, manning, technical and operational standards etc. for ships. These are the rules that determine whether it is lawful to operate MASS in the first place. Second, there are the liability…

An expert on artificial intelligence once said that nothing is as difficult as trying to foresee the future, especially when it comes to technological developments and their significance. In the late 1960 and early 1970s people were very fascinated by space and landing on the moon. Some experts even predicted that in the near future…

A paper presented by Julian Clark at the ‘Autonomous Shipping – Liability and Contractual Issues Conference’ (27 October 2021, co-hosted by the UCL Autonomous Shipping Project and The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law of Swansea). I would like to start by asking all those present to raise their hands if they believe that…