Official papers add that self-driving vehicles to be used for public transport or deliveries will be given the green light to use any UK road from 2025 – and wouldn't require anyone on board to possess a full driving licence.
However, a government-backed report released today by the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has warned that there's “no easy answer” on how safe driverless vehicles should be, adding that the question of safety shouldn't be one answered solely by science. "What we wanted to do was say there's not an easy answer to this question," Professor Jack Stilgoe of University College London, who advised the CDEI, told the BBC.Another worry noted in the report is that the public won’t accept any accidents caused by machines operated by artifical intelligence , even if these are safer on average.t
Autonomous cars + smart motorways 🤔what could possibly go wrong?
As a HGV driver, I'm concerned
And you'll all die
I hope they have an easily recognisable coloured strip on their number plates so I can give them a wide berth.
Great. Just what no-one needed. Stupid cars on dense motorways with drivers asleep at the wheel. As well as decision-makers. Seen enough to know it doesn't work 100% of the time and the the times it doesn't work are daft & do not overlap with where a human would also have failed.
I can already see this ending badly