At the 16th symposium of the Sentencing Research Group under the Sentencing Commission, held on the 29th at the Supreme Court’s main auditorium in Seocho-gu, Seoul, under the theme “Traffic Crimes and Sentencing,” a suggestion emerged that manufacturers’ responsibility should be factored into sentencing for self-driving vehicle accidents. Professor Ryu Bu-gon of KNPU Law School stated that in autonomous driving environments mediated by AI, the driver’s ability to control the vehicle is significantly reduced or eliminated, implying manufacturers and system operators also bear responsibility. He noted that from Level 4, human driver intervention is not assumed, and as the driver’s responsibility disappears, entities designing, operating, and managing the system step in. He added that institutional supplements, such as mandating devices to record autonomous driving data, are essential. Separately, Judge Jang Ji-woong of Suwon District Court’s Ansan Branch criticized the sentencing standards of the “Min-sik Law” for school zones as excessively high, stating the current range requires reasonable adjustment. Under those standards, the mitigated range for child traffic accident injuries starts at 6 months in prison or a fine of 3 million Korean won, and the lower limit for fatal accidents is 1 year and 6 months in prison.