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Road safety is at the heart of the legislation, with automated vehicles expected to improve road safety by reducing human error.

• Updated: 20 May 2024

Self-driving vehicles will help make travel more convenient and accessible, improving the lives of millions of people who can not drive.

• Updated: 9 November 2023

New Geospatial Commission report highlights the role location data will have in the safe deployment of self-driving road vehicles.

• Updated: 18 October 2023

Local Authorities and regional transport operators will study how self-driving vehicle technology can improve local transport in remote, rural, and urban areas.

• Updated: 9 October 2023

£18.5 million is being made available to UK companies in government funding to strengthen the capabilities of the UK’s connected and automated mobility supply chain.

• Updated: 5 September 2023

Government commitment to develop new green technologies in Scotland will improve connectivity, create jobs and encourage people to walk and cycle.

• Updated: 3 April 2023

Passengers will be boarding the world’s first fully sized, self-driving bus service in Edinburgh from the Spring, after it was awarded a share of £81 million in joint UK government and industry support for self-driving trans…

• Updated: 1 February 2023

New plan for self-driving vehicles plus a consultation on a safety ambition.

• Updated: 19 August 2022

A new £40 million competition to kick-start commercial self-driving services, such as delivery vehicles and passenger shuttles, has been launched today.

• Updated: 23 May 2022

Changes to The Highway Code will help ensure the first wave of self-driving vehicles are used safely on UK roads.

• Updated: 20 April 2022

UK to work with UAE, a futuristic transport hub, to drive innovation, decarbonise transport and create green jobs across the country.

• Updated: 22 November 2021

Consultation launched to consider groundbreaking technologies that will transform how we travel over the next decade.

• Updated: 28 September 2021

Automated Lane Keeping System technology outcome means self-driving vehicles could be used on British roads.

• Updated: 28 April 2021

Report revealing the full economic value of self-driving vehicles in the UK released.

• Updated: 13 January 2021

Coventry-based company has also created new jobs to meet global demand for driverless pods.

• Updated: 4 September 2020

Government funds project to develop an automotive cybersecurity assurance framework.

• Updated: 4 September 2020

Demonstration of collision avoidance system sees 2 vehicles steer around stationary car without human assistance.

• Updated: 4 September 2020

The project has been part-funded by £4.5 million from the government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) and Innovate UK.

• Updated: 4 September 2020

Government-backed autonomous vehicles project has achieved its goal of sending a Nissan LEAF on a self-navigated 'Grand Drive'.

• Updated: 4 September 2020

Making journeys easier, smarter and greener with new technology.

• Updated: 16 March 2020