Law Commissions recommend further legislation to enable the
safe use of automated vehicles
On 26 January, the Law Commission of England & Wales and the
Scottish Law Commission published the final report in their joint,
three-year investigation into law reform and automated driving.
They set out the case for a new Automated Vehicles Act and
detail the areas it should cover. We have grouped their principal
recommendations for regulating the safe deployment of self-driving
or automated vehicles (AV) on British roads into the following
themes.
Ensuring clarity about automated driving and assisted
driving
The final report recommends:
"a high test for a vehicle to be authorised as having
self-driving features: it must be safe even if a human user is not
monitoring the driving environment, the vehicle or the way it
drives. A user may be required to respond to a clear and timely
signal to take over driving (a "transition demand"), but
otherwise must not be relied
