The United Kingdom government announced driverless cars will beallowed on public roads starting in January 2015, reports BBC News.Ministers also ordered a review of the UK's road regulations toprovide appropriate guidelines for the new technology.
|UK engineers have been experimenting with driverless cars, butconcerns about legal and insurance issues have restricted themachines on private roads, until now. The Department of Transportoriginally pledged to let self-driving cars be trailed on publicroads by the end of 2013, says BBC News.
|The UK joins the U.S. states of California, Nevada, and Floridain approving tests of driverless vehicles. In California alone,Google's driverlss car has done more than 300,000 miles on the openroad, says BBC News.
|Nissan carried out Japan's first public road test of adriverless vehicle on a highway in 2013. The Swedish city ofGothenburg has given Volvo permission to test 100 driverless cars,starting 2017.
|The UK is inviting cities to compete to host one of three trailsof the driverless technology in January. The tests will run forbetween 18 to 36 months.Business Secretary Vince Cable says themove will put the UK "at the forefront of this transformationaltechnology," and provide new opportunities for the country'seconomy, says BBC News.
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