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Vitaly V. Klyuev - Candidate of Law, head of the Department of State Policy in the field of maritime and inland water transport of the Ministry of Transport of Russia, Moscow, Russia

Abstract. Automation of control processes in all spheres of human activity is becoming increasingly accelerated due to the improvement of computing technologies, artificial intelligence, communications, pattern recognition, as well as the creation of effective actuators for automation. Accordingly, new social relations are emerging, connected with automation, reduction or exclusion of human cognitive functions and humans in general in the control loop of technical and technological processes. Automation has fully affected transport and vehicles, creating an unprecedented need to review legal norms, structures and concepts that regulate social relations arising during the operation of transport infrastructure and vehicles. In this regard, there is a problem of using legal terminology in relation to vehicles operated without human participation or with reduced human participation compared to traditional control methods. The current paper has considered the question of how the term “autonomy” should be used to describe a vehicle without human intervention, and whether it meets the stated needs of the transport sector, where the term “automated vehicle” and many other terms are currently often used for these purposes? Obviously, there is a possibility of universal legal regulation of the operation of autonomous transport in general. But there is a significant obstacle to the implementation of such an idea since there is no community of transport regulation either in the world or in Russia and establishing the community and universality in relation to autonomous transport alone in the absence of community of basic transport regulation seems an unsolvable task.

Keywords: merchant shipping; autonomous vehicle; autonomous shipping; maritime law; legal regulation of autonomous marine vessels; convergence of maritime law, terminology of maritime law; terminology of transport law.

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Klyuev V.V. Terminology of autonomous vehicle // Transport law and security. 2025; (2(54)):114―124.