The UK's Autonomous Vehicle Permit Process Explained
London's first robotaxi service runs on the Uber app with a safety driver still behind the wheel. Here is every step a company must clear before the UK lets it take the driver out.
Tym Syrytczyk co-founded the Institute for Driverless Transport (IFDT), an independent UK research body, and writes Self-Driving Insights. His recent piece on getting permission to run a robotaxi service in London is the plain-English explainer. This episode walks through it in order.
The law comes first. Two Acts separate supervised rides from driverless ones. The 2018 Act set out insurance and liability, and the…
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