The anticipated public deployment of highly connected and automated vehicles (‘CAVs’) has the potential to introduce a range of complex regulatory challenges because of the novel and expansive way that data is generated, used, collected and shared by CAVs. Regulators within Australia and internationally are facing the complex task of developing rules and regulations to meet these challenges against the backdrop of continuing uncertainty about the ultimate form of CAVs and the timeframe for their introduction. This paper undertakes a novel examination of whether the regulation of high level CAVs and their associated data will constitute a ‘wicked problem’. The wicked problem framework provides a valuable lens through which to examine difficult issues that are faced by regulators and, in turn, to aid in developing regulatory responses and to navigate such issues. A new four quadrant framework is developed and applied. It draws on and expands the seminal work on wicked problems by Rittel and Webber, and Alford and Head. The framework is used to critically reflect on whether CAVs are a ‘wicked problem’, and, if so, what might be the potential consequences for policy and regulatory development involving the data environment. This paper considers whether evaluating the ‘wickedness’ of a problem is a useful exercise for regulators, and the potential impact on developing novel approaches to regulatory responses.

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联网自动驾驶汽车 (CAV) 的监管是否是一个棘手的问题？为什么它如此重要？

由于 CAV 生成、使用、收集和共享数据的方式新颖且广泛，预计高度互联和自动化车辆 (CAV) 的公共部署可能会带来一系列复杂的监管挑战。在 CAV 的最终形式及其引入时间框架持续存在不确定性的背景下，澳大利亚和国际监管机构面临着制定规则和法规以应对这些挑战的复杂任务。本文对高级 CAV 及其相关数据的监管是否会构成“棘手问题”进行了新颖的研究。棘手问题框架提供了一个宝贵的视角，通过它来检查监管机构面临的难题，进而帮助制定监管对策并解决这些问题。开发并应用了新的四象限框架。它借鉴并扩展了里特尔和韦伯、阿尔福德和海德关于棘手问题的开创性工作。该框架用于批判性地反思 CAV 是否​​是一个“棘手的问题”，如果是，那么对涉及数据环境的政策和监管制定可能产生哪些潜在后果。本文考虑了评估问题的“邪恶性”对于监管机构来说是否是一种有用的做法，以及对开发新的监管应对方法的潜在影响。