Santos, José‐AntonioFernández, AlbertoMoreno‐Rebato, MarBillhardt, HolgerRodríguez‐García, José‐A.Ossowski, Sascha2023-12-222023-12-222020Santos, JA., Fernández, A., Moreno-Rebato, M. et al. Legal and ethical implications of applications based on agreement technologies: the case of auction-based road intersections. Artif Intell Law 28, 385–414 (2020).1572-83820924-8463https://hdl.handle.net/10115/27743This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, co-funded by EU FEDER Funds, through Grants TIN2015-65515-C4-X-R (SURF) and RTI2018-095390-B-C33 (InEDGEMobility).Agreement technologies refer to a novel paradigm for the construction of distributed intelligent systems, where autonomous software agents negotiate to reach agreements on behalf of their human users. Smart Cities are a key application domain for agreement technologies. While several proofs of concept and prototypes exist, such systems are still far from ready for being deployed in the real-world. In this paper we focus on a novel method for managing elements of smart road infrastructures of the future, namely the case of auction-based road intersections. We show that, even though the key technological elements for such methods are already available, there are multiple non-technical issues that need to be tackled before they can be applied in practice. For this purpose, we analyse legal and ethical implications of auction-based road intersections in the context of international regulations and from the standpoint of the Spanish legislation. From this exercise, we extract a set of required modifications, of both technical and legal nature, which need to be addressed so as to pave the way for the potential real-world deployment of such systems in a future that may not be too far away.engAtribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Agreement technologiesAutonomous vehiclesIntersection managementIntelligent transportation systemsEthical and legal aspectsSpanish lawinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.1007/s10506-019-09259-8info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess