AutomatedVehicleLaw

PhD candidate @DurhamLawSchool | Researching #AutomatedVehicles, #AI & #ProductLiability | Solicitor | Opinions mine, not my employer's. RT's ≠ endorsements.

[AutomatedVehicleLaw @FelixBoon]

Delighted to finally get my hands on a print copy of this and pleased as punch to see my chapter on AV Liability in Great Britain in there too! You can order it here: https://t.co/HlLNsZADsj

[AutomatedVehicleLaw @FelixBoon]

More 2020 madness. My article on some of the problems with the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 has been awarded the #BILA Journal Article Prize for 2020. Pretty chuffed, to be honest.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.

[AutomatedVehicleLaw @FelixBoon]

Ouch. This is scary stuff.

[JER @lifeof_jer]

https://t.co/ofucbVgkLV

[Fred Lambert @FredLambert]

Insane Tesla story coming out of Norway today.

You probably forgot about this weird Tesla crash from 2023 where a Model Y taxi had two bizarre 'sudden acceleration' crashes in just a few seconds.

The driver claimed the car accelerated on its own and he was pressing the brake pedal. Tesla claimed its data shows he was pressing the accelerator.

The driver was charged, but the charges were later dropped for lack of evidence, and there are indeed some serious problems with the evidence.

While Tesla did share some telemetry data, the automaker claimed that the last 6 seconds were somehow missing.

It turned out that someone went inside the vehicle, opened up the onboard computer, and removed the network card, which an expert believes would hold critical evidence.

Everyone involved claims not to know where the card is.

[Dominic King @DKingTelegraph]

One of the great wonders of life: the astronauts on Artemis II can make video calls with perfectly clarity and reception from halfway to the moon yet try to make a call on an Avanti train on the West Coast mainline at Runcorn and you’ll be lucky to connect by Watford.

[AutomatedVehicleLaw @FelixBoon]

@PeterSchiff @StealthQE4 Lose? You’ll need to check your rear view mirror to find it.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

"The strike resulted in nearly the entire medical team, including doctors, paramedics and nurses, being killed."

Israel is killing medical workers, the U.S. is killing little kids, and together the two countries have killed more than 2,000 human beings.

Just 3 weeks in.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Who believed that "if they only released the hostages"? Who believed in the ceasefire?
After killing 500+ people in about 3 months, Israel- armed and supported by the US - continues its genocide in Gaza undisturbed.
Don't let it become the new normal. Stand up against genocide!

[AutomatedVehicleLaw @FelixBoon]

@kieran_hurley Agreed. That things are not what they seem is not the same as nothing happens. Weird take by them.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Some 92% of donations to Reform UK come from the fossil fuels lobby. That might explain why it opposes Net Zero.

[Creative Counsel Law @creativeatlaw]

Sam Altman just confirmed what lawyers have been saying for over a year:
There’s no legal privilege when you use ChatGPT.

So if you’re pasting in contracts, asking legal questions, or asking it for strategy, you’re not getting legal advice. You’re generating discoverable evidence.

No attorney-client privilege. No confidentiality. No ethical duty. No one to protect you.

It might feel private, safe, and convenient. But lawyers are bound to protect you.
ChatGPT isn’t—and can be used against you.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Israel is continuing to use starvation as a method of warfare, a war crime, and as a tool to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

The harrowing suffering of starving Palestinians in Gaza, including our own colleagues, on an hourly basis, is exacerbated by Israel’s cruel and devastating militarised non-neutral ‘aid distribution’ system. Over 800 people have been killed trying to access aid. This must stop now.

Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza must end now. Israel must immediately lift all restrictions on the entry of aid, reinstate the UN system of aid distribution and allow unfettered, safe, and dignified access to humanitarian aid throughout Gaza immediately. States must stop their inertia and urgently act to ensure Israel fully complies with international law.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Gaza hospital says 21 children dead from malnutrition in 72 hours as UN warns 'last lifelines collapsing' https://t.co/z9bJEncggR

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The Israeli Army is now targeting starving children in the head and testicles in Gaza, while terrorising others, together with violent lunatics, in the West Bank.

These past 650 days, Israel has written one of the darkest pages of human history.

And it is absolutely sickening that the EU leadership rewarded this country with more economic partnership instead of putting an end to the genocide.

[AutomatedVehicleLaw @FelixBoon]

There is no possible justification for this. No civilised model of war that can accommodate this. What purpose does it serve to starve children? It’s barbaric.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Three-month-old Yahya Fadi al-Najjar died in Gaza yesterday from starvation, his mother, unable to breastfeed, watched helplessly as cries for infant formula went unanswered and no aid arrived.

Yet, Erdogan, MbZ, Abdullah II, Aliyev,... continue to do business with Netanyahu.

[Alex Orr @alex_m_orr]

Cut in funding to @ScotlandEuropa by @scotent is deeply disappointing, further weakening links with the EU post-Brexit, especially following folding of Scottish European Educational Trust & @Europarl_EN office @euromovescot @EuropeFife @Edinburgh4EU @swScotland4Eur1 @Stirling4Europe #Brexit

[Simon @broon313]

Only one day into the week and it's gone to pot already. The perfect illustration of everything that's wrong with with criminal law in Scotland.
For context, I'm the only criminal lawyer in my firm, but I do have a NQ assistant who can help out with more straightforward cases.

[AutomatedVehicleLaw @FelixBoon]

MP does their job and @PaulBrandITV asks if this is because they’re being paid by interested parties to do so. That this raises eyebrows speaks volumes about
Political journalism, MP’s and the Parliamentary process generally. Grim all round.

[Nikki da Costa @nmdacosta]

.@PaulBrandITV you've made - or certainly shared - an accusation in DM. Let's deal with this in the open.

My opposition to Kim Leadbeater's bill is entirely voluntary. I am in fact sympathetic to the principle. I started out extremely worried by the process, and evolved to a firm opponent of THIS bill because I engaged with the detail.

I receive no funding of any kind, nor would I accept any.

Why am I able to spend the time focussing on this travesty of a Bill? Because I've put off what I wanted to do, for what I felt I HAD to do.

I quit my job to stand in the General Election because I hoped to defend North East Herts and contribute to a stronger Parliament. I took time out to work out what next, and I decided to relaunch my coaching business (you'll see I have a registered company called Higher Hanging Fruit Ltd, which was registered in August 2024 ahead of a planned Q4 launch), and I secured a part time role to bridge that gap while I got up and running. There are strict disclosure requirements for me if I was to do anything in connection with that role.

Then the Assisted Dying Bill came along. I saw there was a massive vacuum, so I postponed the launch and what I wanted to do, for what I felt I HAD to do.

I happen to think that society changing legislation is a big deal!