UK insurers warn against go-ahead for self-driving cars on motorways

Government plans set to start in 2021 risk lives and are ‘hugely wrong’, experts say

Plans for cars to drive themselves on UK motorways as soon as 2021 are unlikely to go ahead after insurers warned government proposals were risking lives and “hugely wrong”.

Cars with the technology to keep in lane, accelerate and brake automatically will be on the road next year, and ministers had proposed that drivers could relinquish control to their vehicles at speeds of up to 70mph on motorways.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Tjc29S