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Driverless cars will be allowed on Britain’s motorways in 2017

Unknown 1:08 PM 2017 , ALLOWED , Britain's , Cars , Driverless , motorways

<ul><li style="text-align: justify;">In 2017 driverless cars will be visible in Britain’s motorways</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Series of testings will take place this year and will take the roads by 2020</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Motor manufacturers like Nissan, Ford, and Jaguar Land Rover, as well as web firm Google, are investing billions of pounds into the technology</li> </ul>For the first time next year, driverless cars will be seen in Britain’s motorways after a series of trials that will take place on local roads this year. This was announced by George Osborne ahead of his Budget next week as he vowed to get rid of ‘red tape’ so that the cars will be sold to the public and can be fully utilized by the year 2020, an article published by <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/12191589/Driverless-cars-will-take-to-Britains-motorways-for-the-first-time-next-year.html?sf22447509=1">The Telegraph</a> stated. As disclosed in another article which was written by Jack Doyle on <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3488706/Driverless-cars-Britain-s-roads-2020-Trials-vehicles-driven-onboard-computers-test-centres-urban-streets-year.html">Daily Mail</a>, the Chancellor claimed it would represent the ‘most fundamental change to transport since the invention of the internal combustion engine’. Based on the report, motor manufacturers like Nissan, Ford and Jaguar Land Rover, as well as web firms like Google, are investing billions of pounds into the technology. The technology, according to experts, could possibly minimize the number of crashes by 95 percent as it dramatically reduce road injuries and deaths. Aside from this, it could also cut congestion and improve travel time, as well. As such, the Chancellor said he wants to attract investments in the technology to Britain and eventually transform the nation into a ‘global leader’ in a market that is expected to be worth £900 billion worldwide by 2025. In connection, road tests will kick off in Greenwich, Bristol, Milton Keynes and Coventry this year. In 2017, motorway tests will be allowed by Highways England. To set out safety standards for testing, a code of practice for driverless cars has been designed by the Department of Transport. With this, it is hoped that driverless cars will eventually be capable of running without human help but rules will require a professional driver to be in the car, the report added. <a href="http://kickerdaily.com/driverless-cars-will-be-allowed-on-britains-motorways-in-2017/" rel="nofollow">Kicker Daily News</a>

In 2017 driverless cars will be visible in Britain’s motorways Series of testings will take place this year and will take the roads by 2020 ...