In January 2022, the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission on Automated Vehicles published their joint report on the regulation and safe deployment of automated vehicles. Paul Almond and Sally Kyd review the elements of the proposed regulations that employ the criminal sanction: the reimagining of the role of “criminal” responsibility and liability in relation to individual actors and “drivers”, and the development of a “regulatory” approach in relation to the organisational actors operating in this field.