Data protection and self-driving cars: the consent to the processing of personal data in compliance with GDPR

摘要

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are defined as those technologies that collect data on the performance of the vehicle and on the space-time context of its circulation. ADAS inform the driver or make suggestions to him/her and, in specific cases, they can even take partial or total control of the vehicle.1 A few decades ago, driverless cars appeared to be a distant dream, while today driverless vehicles2 are spreading everywhere. The development of self-driving cars began more than 30 years ago with the project PROMETHEUS3 (PROgraMme for European Traffic with Highest Efficiency and Unprecedented Safety), launched in 1987 by Mercedes-Benz. The projected resulted in the two VaMP and VITA-2 twin vehicles that ran across more than 1,000 kilometres in completely autonomous mode on the Paris motorways in 1994.