UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @04:29AM from the crucial-to-development-of-the-tardis dept.

rtoz sends this news from the BBC: The UK government has announced that driverless cars will be allowed on public roads starting in January next year. It also invited cities to compete to host one of three trials of the tech, which would start at the same time. In addition, ministers ordered a review of the UK's road regulations to provide appropriate guidelines. ... The debate now is whether to allow cars, like the prototype unveiled by Google in May, to abandon controls including a steering wheel and pedals and rely on the vehicle's computer. Or whether, instead, to allow the machine to drive, but insist a passenger be ready to wrest back control at a moment's notice.

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Safety by Old+Aylesburian · 2014-07-30 04:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Just needs a requirement for a man to walk ahead carrying a red flag.
Re:Figures it would not be the US by linearZ · 2014-07-30 04:59 · Score: 5, Informative

The US has had this for a while.

Nevada legalized driver less cars a couple of years ago. Google will be running an autonomous taxi service in Vegas: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

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