UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
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Re: UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
#2UK to allow tests of driverless cars on public roads to start in January.
In the same way that has already begun in the rest of the world. Same legal/insurance issues stand (as elsewhere) and are likely the bigger barrier to adoption.
Re: UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
#3UK to allow tests of driverless cars on public roads to start in January. In the same way that has already begun in the rest of the world. Same legal/insurance issues stand (as elsewhere) and are likely the bigger barrier to adoption.
That's what it says, yes.
Have such tests already begun the "the rest of the world"?
Re: UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
#4UK to allow tests of driverless cars on public roads to start in January. In the same way that has already begun in the rest of the world. Same legal/insurance issues stand (as elsewhere) and are likely the bigger barrier to adoption.
That's what it says, yes. Have such tests already begun the "the rest of the world"?
That's not what the title says.
Re: UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
#5UK to allow tests of driverless cars on public roads to start in January. In the same way that has already begun in the rest of the world. Same legal/insurance issues stand (as elsewhere) and are likely the bigger barrier to adoption.
That's what it says, yes. Have such tests already begun the "the rest of the world"?
It's allowed in a few states in the US.
Last time I went to California I saw one up close, that was pretty neat (though I don't know if it was driving itself at the time)!
Re: UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what it says, yes. Have such tests already begun the "the rest of the world"?
That's not what the title says.
I don't understand the distinction. If the UK is allowing tests of driverless cars, it must be allowing them on the roads, and of course "in January" means "starts in January", what else would it mean
Re: UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not what the title says.
I don't understand the distinction. If the UK is allowing tests of driverless cars, it must be allowing them on the roads, and of course "in January" means "starts in January", what else would it mean
While the title is technically true, it could easily be interpreted to mean anyone could buy or build a driverless car and drive it on UK roads starting in January.
Re: UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not what the title says.
I don't understand the distinction. If the UK is allowing tests of driverless cars, it must be allowing them on the roads, and of course "in January" means "starts in January", what else would it mean
Driverless cars are a risky unproven technology, and done wrong could easily kill people.
It'd be like taking "FDA approves new drug for human testing" and making the headline "FDA to allow human use of new untested drug."
Both are technically true, but the latter makes it sound like a widespread thing being done regardless of poorly understood risks. And that's misleading, since it's being done in very limited scope to help us understand and reduce those risks.
Re: UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
#9UK to allow tests of driverless cars on public roads to start in January. In the same way that has already begun in the rest of the world. Same legal/insurance issues stand (as elsewhere) and are likely the bigger barrier to adoption.
Since there are a total of zero commercially available driverless cars, was that distinction really required?
Nowhere in the world has permitted non-test driverless cars because non-test driverless cars aren't a thing yet.
The whole "rest of the world" remark seems like smug condescension. Which is a little odd as only a small handful of places even allow test-cars to be run on public roads. Plus isn't this a welcome addition? The UK's roads are quite a different test bed to many West coast US cities where there is no grid pattern, roads are smaller, and curvey.
Re: UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
#10UK to allow tests of driverless cars on public roads to start in January. In the same way that has already begun in the rest of the world. Same legal/insurance issues stand (as elsewhere) and are likely the bigger barrier to adoption.
That's what it says, yes. Have such tests already begun the "the rest of the world"?
As tlrobinson says, I was trying to clarify the content of the article, as the title could easily be mis-interpreted to mean that there were no restrictions.
In addition, I suspect that the cars will be 'self-driving' cars rather than 'driverless' (the distinction being that the former has a human behind the wheel, which can take the wheel at a moments notice).
As for the rest of the world, from the article:
The US States of California, Nevada and Florida have all approved tests of the vehicles. In California alone, Google's driverless car has done more than 300,000 miles on the open road.
In 2013, Nissan carried out Japan's first public road test of an autonomous vehicle on a highway.
And in Europe, the Swedish city of Gothenburg has given Volvo permission to test 100 driverless cars - although that trial is not scheduled to occur until 2017.