Driverless Vehicles: Safety
(asked on 13th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on public safety of driverless vehicles.
This question was answered on 23rd April 2018
Connected and automated vehicle technologies offer many potential benefits including improved road traffic safety. In 2016, 86% of collisions on British roads were caused by human error, and we believe that connected and automated vehicle technologies could help reduce that number. The UK Code of Practice supports developers to undertake safe tests of automated vehicle technologies.