Self-driving vehicles safety consultation

Views sought on proposed safety ambition for self-driving vehicles to form the foundation of a new self-driving vehicle safety framework

The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) has launched a consultation seeking views on their proposed safety ambition for self-driving vehicles.

Following a review of the law relating to self-driving vehicles, CCAV are creating a new legal and safety framework for these vehicles. Their proposals were set out in Connected and Automated Mobility 2025: realising the benefits of self-driving vehicles in the UK.

CCAV believes that self-driving vehicles should be held to the same high standard of behaviour as that expected of human drivers. Current law expects human drivers to be competent and careful. Self-driving vehicles should, therefore, be expected to achieve an equivalent level of safety to a competent and careful human driver. This is safer than the average human driver.

Your views are welcomed on the approach that self-driving vehicles should be expected to achieve an equivalent level of safety to that of a competent and careful human driver.

Find out more about the consultation and how to respond.

First published 22 August 2022