The subject of research is the composition of the participants in the legal relationship on the use of an unmanned vehicle. The article breaks off with a general overview of attempts to settle these legal relations, which are fundamentally new both for the Russian legal system and the economy as a whole. At the same time, central attention is paid to their subject composition. The study states that the legal regulation of relations on the use of unmanned vehicles is haphazard. A single regulatory legal act has not yet been adopted, and by-laws have an extremely heterogeneous subject of legal regulation, including civil, administrative and other aspects. This leads to significant problems of legal technique, the result of which in the future will be difficulties in law enforcement practice. An analysis of the civil component of the use of unmanned vehicles shows that the potential of the current civil legislation to regulate relevant relations is far from exhausted. The range of subjects for the use of an unmanned vehicle coincides with the subjects of classical relations for the transportation or rental of vehicles. In this regard, changes to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, its additions by new subjects of legal relations or new contractual structures are undesirable at the current stage.