Legal regulation of the safety of autonomous ships: environmental challenges and approaches

Abstract

This study aims to explain the difficulty of the absence of legal regulation of the safety of autonomous and the effects of automation systems (ships in this study) on the human (jobs, skills, human behavior) and nature (pollution, loss of biodiversity, damage, etc). So the human should introduce a novel manner of thinking with the effect of the ethical and moral principle of automation. Our contribution will; focuses on the problem that how to conciliate between the huge positive technology evolution and the negative impact on the human and nature. This paper addresses the need to renew and positioning research in light of this contending.