The Government is claiming that self-driving vehicles could be on British roads by 2026, after its Automated Vehicles (AV) Act became law.
“The new law will require self-driving vehicles to achieve a level of safety at least as high as careful and competent human drivers, as well as meeting “rigorous” safety checks before being allowed onto roads.” Self-driving vehicles 'within two years' as new law introduced
Just as Daimler truck & Volvo forge alliance for SDV software defined vehicles. They’re going the same way as BEV’s by the look of it.
"Software-defined heavy-duty trucks represent a paradigm shift in the transformation of our industry.” He continues: “Making the truck a programmable device with standardized hardware and operating system for fast product updates will give both companies the opportunity to create value for our customers and their customers though differentiating digital services and solutions.” Daimler Truck and Volvo Group forge alliance for software-defined trucks | electrive.com
I’m rubbish at predicting lottery numbers, but I feel more confident in my prediction that this will come to pass and within two years will forever disappear into the obscurity that it richly deserves.
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i wonder how many people are going to be killed and wrongly blamed before they begin to accept it might possibly be the automated car at fault
I don’t know any of the requirements, but I could easily imagine that having camera recording would be compulsary. Not much help to someone who may have just been run over though.
not when a car park at luton airport burns down causing millions in damages… but it wasnt an ev spontaneously combusting it was a figment of everyones imagination even though there was video evidence
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I was reading how it’s going to be a big disruption for the insurance business, Warren Buffet businessman, investor, and philanthropist chimed in saying it will be good for people but very bad for the insurance industry.
On my American drivers’ site there is much discussion of this sort of thing. Lorries that have radar to detect the speed and distance of the vehicle in front, and which slam the anchors on if it thinks there is a danger of collision, sometimes taking the driver by surprise who might have been otherwise in the process of reducing speed.
Really glad I am out of all that sort of thing now.
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We have had that since 2017(?)
Compulsory AEBS and Lane Departure.
Boris seems to be enjoying the FSD in a Tesla in Los Angeles.
It was a diesel powered vehicle, not an EV. Bedfordshire Fire & Rescue Service have within the last few weeks categorically stated that it was not a mild hybrid, a plug in hybrid or a battery-electric vehicle but a diesel. They know this not because they have watched YouTube or Tik-Tok videos purporting to show the vehicle involved, nor from what other “informed” observers have posted on social meeja. They know this because they have identified the vehicle concerned and interviewed its driver.
diesel doesnt just spontaneously catch fire you have to work at it nor does it burn like that An opinion biased on physics and chemistry not some muppet with an agenda saying no no it was a diesel honest gov
