Driverless automobiles – coming soon to a road near you!

Nowadays is an historic day for motoring in the UK.

The government has announced a modify in the law to permit firms to start off running trials of driverless automobiles – which means the 1st laptop-controlled autos will hit Britain’s highways in January subsequent year.

£10 million ignition fund

A £10 million fund has been set aside to cover the costs of trials across 3 UK cities from the commence of subsequent year that will run for among 18 and 36 months.

Vince Cable PM, Enterprise Secretary, unveiled the scheme: “Today’s announcement will see driverless automobiles take to our streets in much less than 6 months, placing us at the forefront of this transformational technologies and opening up new possibilities for our economy and society.”

Effect on insurance coverage

The move could at some point lead to a huge alter in your insurance coverage premiums.

If driverless cars can be shown to be safer, and if they are involved in fewer accidents than traditional cars, the expense of insuring them will inevitably fall.

This could be a single of the major reasons why individuals get over their reflex mistrust of driverless automobiles and commence using them.

For far more on the potential influence on the insurance coverage market, study my post Could driverless cars trigger a car insurance crash?

Keeping pace?

But is the UK really ‘at the forefront’ of this technologies although, or is it just attempting to preserve pace with other nations, notably the US, house of Google, the main driver behind computerised automobile?