Self Drive Cars Will Be Allowed On Our Roads
Friday, 13. July 2018
According to What Car from 2021 self-drive cars without a driver at the wheel will be allowed on roads in the UK. Is this Government nuts? Don’t answer that! That is 3 years away!
Just after reading reports that self-drive cars still need an alert driver at the wheel ready to take over the controls in an emergency or if the car suffers a fault, we now hear that the self-drive cars will not only be allowed on our roads whilst the driver reads the paper, he can actually be indoors watching the TV. Crazy!
The move will apparently be achieved by removing the current legal constraints and overhauling insurance policies. I think slightly more important than that is to actually guarantee that people won’t get run over by a driverless car and killed before sorting out insurance policies.
In the US, Google’s self-drive technology firm Waymo, recently announced a driverless taxi service in Phoenix, Arizona. The cars will be completely driverless and if I’m anything to go by passengerless as well! I struggle getting on the driverless train between the two terminals at Gatwick Airport.
It travels on tracks with computers that stop the train automatically whilst travelling at its fastest at walking pace. Someone needs to tell the Government what to do with driverless cars – I think I just did! By Graham Hill
