Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what new regulations and other changes in legislation will be required before self-driving cars can be used on roads in the UK.

We anticipate that a number of changes will be required to the regulatory framework for driving to facilitate the safe use of automated vehicle technology as it arrives to market. The document Pathway to driverless cars: a regulatory review sets out a number of areas in which these changes may need to take place. As technology continues to develop, we intend to keep our regulation under constant review and act quickly, so that we can all make use of the opportunities offered to us by the safe use of automated vehicle technology. To date, this has included a consultation in Summer 2016 on proposals to support near to market advanced driver assistance systems and insurance for automated vehicles.