UK driverless car rules

[jos]

Department for Transport (DfT) laid down guidlelines for testing autonomous (or semi-autonomous) cars on Britain’s roads. All the regukar rules applies and more:

 

1. operators/testers of driverless cars working remotely (as well as people who are present in ‘highly assisted vehicles’) aren’t allowed to drink alcohol, take drugs, use their phone, or do anything else that you wouldn’t be allowed to do while driving a regular vehicle.
2. Test drivers and operators are also instructed to maintain the regular appearance of someone driving a car – like looking in the correct direction when at junctions, for example, to not confuse other motorists.
3. Autonomous vehicles will also have to be fitted with a ‘black box’ type recording device capable of “capturing data from the sensor and control systems associated with the automated features as well as other information concerning the vehicle’s movement - This will have to record (at a minimum) whether the vehicle was in automatic or manual driving mode, how fast it is going, steering and braking command activation, among other things. It’ll also have to record data about the presence of other road users and vehicles.

I wish all the countries should start testing autonomous driving..

 

Source: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/20/uk-driverless-car-testing-rules-dont-use-your-phone-even-if-youre-not-in-the-car/

[techswede]

Fair enough in my opinion.

Forcing people that cant be arsed to drive their own cars to pay attention is pretty funny to me

[Bsmith]

fair enough, although the 2nd point is kinda funny since you are supposed to use your blinkers as hint for direction instead of looking that way.

[brownninja97]

Holy crap these rules are reasonable

[spartaman64]

fair enough, although the 2nd point is kinda funny since you are supposed to use your blinkers as hint for direction instead of looking that way.

i would suppose the car automatically puts on blinkers so rule 2 is pointless

[Real_PhillBert]

Those all seem perfectly reasonable to me. A rare occurrence for the British government. 

[Bsmith]

i would suppose the car automatically puts on blinkers so rule 2 is pointless

 

a automatic car should do that if i'm not mistaken. but rule2 only mentoins looking the way you go and says nothing about those magical things called blinkers, could it be that the UK goverment forgot about their existance?!

[Trik'Stari]

Holy hell, a governmental body came up with rules that make almost complete sense.

 

 

Is today the apocalypse?

[techswede]

Holy hell, a governmental body came up with rules that make almost complete sense.

 

 

Is today the apocalypse?

There is a black box recording every move you and the people around you make though  :lol:

[Blade of Grass]

fair enough, although the 2nd point is kinda funny since you are supposed to use your blinkers as hint for direction instead of looking that way.

Maybe they mean that you're suppose to be sitting in the driver's seat like normal and facing forward, not turned around or siting elsewhere?

[Real_PhillBert]

Maybe they mean that you're suppose to be sitting in the driver's seat like normal and facing forward, not turned around or siting elsewhere?

 

So taking a nap in the back seat is out of the question?

[Trik'Stari]

There is a black box recording every move you and the people around you make though  :lol:

Well, that's pretty common on modern vehicles. Not to mention that when in public, you have zero legal expectation of privacy.

 

So taking a nap in the back seat is out of the question?

 

Then what's the point of a driverless car? I would want one specifically for that reason.

[Alurit]

I suppose these are just temporary guidelines, cause when driverless cars go mainstream there is no reason to force people to have a designated sober driver when you have a driverless car, or when cars that don't actually have driverseats appear

[joaosambro]

Is this how the world changes? People would be pretty lazy when they'll allow driverless cars. This is funny!

[sof006]

Makes total sense I suppose. Laws and rules keep the idiots from blaming it all on the car.

[EndlessOyster]

fair enough, although the 2nd point is kinda funny since you are supposed to use your blinkers as hint for direction instead of looking that way.

Its not for that, its so you dont pull up beside someone who is in some strange position like looking the other way as it may confuse and distract other drivers.