UK rewrites the rules of the road under the "robot"

Cars that can drive on the roads without the participation of drivers are already racing around California and some other US states (for the time being only test samples). However, in other regions and countries, the rules of the road (traffic rules) are not adapted to new realities, and driving a car without a person’s control on the roads is practically impossible (that is, not allowed).

In the UK, this is exactly the situation, but the legislators of this country are planning to rewrite the traffic rules for robotic cars. At least, at first they will allow testing of such cars on the roads of this country.
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Among other things, UK lawmakers are going to encourage their automakers who are developing their own cars with an autonomous control system.

David Willett, Minister of Science and Universities of Britain, said that California is already working on creating laws that allow cars to appear on the roads that simply do not have a driver's seat (the first licenses / rights for owners of such cars will be issued as early as September of this year). And the UK plans to use similar laws in their own countries. In any case, work on new laws is already underway, and researchers at Oxford are very actively working on their own projects of autonomous control for passenger cars.

Via: The Independent