Tamper-proof evidence via blockchain for autonomous vehicle accident monitoring

Abstract

In case of an accident between two autonomous vehicles equipped with emerging technologies, how do we apportion liability among the various players? A special liability regime has not even yet been established for damages that may arise due to the accidents of autonomous vehicles. Would the immutable, time-stamped sensor records of vehicles on distributed ledger help define the intertwined relations of liability subjects right through the accident? What if the synthetic media created through deepfake gets involved in the insurance claims? While integrating AI-powered anomaly or deepfake detection into automated insurance claims processing helps to prevent insurance fraud, it is only a matter of time before deepfake becomes nearly undetectable even to elaborate forensic tools. This paper proposes a blockchain-based insurtech decentralized application to check the authenticity and provenance of the accident footage and also to decentralize the loss-adjusting process through a hybrid of decentralized and centralized databases using smart contracts.