MPs are yet to grasp the impact of modern vehicle technology on the motor industry says the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI). The comments came after a Dods Polling survey into MPs’ attitudes to driverless cars revealed a “general lack of knowledge amongst our legislators on the impact of autonomous vehicles.”
Four UK cities have been chosen to find out how driverless cars might fit into everyday life. £10 million of funding from Innovate UK has given the green light for testing innovative driverless cars in the real world as announced by George Osborne in last week’s Autumn Financial Statement. Greenwich (south east London), Milton Keynes and Coventry (working together as one project) and Bristol will run formal trials lasting between 18 and 36 months from January 2015.
Innovate UK has announced that ‘UK Autodrive’, a consortium of local authorities, the UK’s leading technology and automotive businesses and academic institutions, has won the UK Government’s £10 million ‘Introducing Driverless Cars’ competition. In short this means a semi-autonomous Range Rover research vehicle will now be used to test driver reactions on the roads around […]
The recent announcement giving driverless cars the go-ahead on UK roads points to an exciting future – hampered at the outset by the daily routine of roadworks, potholes, worn road markings, burst mains and failed traffic lights, according to the Road Safety Markings Association (RSMA).
Responding to Vince Cable’s announcement on plans to begin trials of driverless cars in the UK next year, motor insurance industry-established automotive research centre Thatcham Research said that while fully driverless cars “are an exciting glimpse of the future with substantial potential to improve road safety,” it opines that the UK car fleet “has a long way to go” before the technology should be unleashed on the motoring public.
Up to three cities in the UK will be selected as part of a £10 million competition to host trials of driverless cars, shared Business Secretary Vince Cable today. He said the government is calling on cities to join together with businesses and research organisations to put forward proposals to become a test location. The trials will get underway in January 2015 and are expected to last between 18 and 36 months. Ministers have also launched a review into current road regulations in order to ensure there is an appropriate regime for testing driverless cars in the UK.
A new study from Churchill Car Insurance of over 2,000 UK adults reveals that the majority (56 per cent) say they would not purchase a driverless car and a quarter (25 per cent) believes that autonomous vehicles will not be safe.
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