UK:

>pilots of self-driving taxi- and bus-like services will be brought forward by a year to spring 2026, attracting investment and making the UK one of the world leaders in this technology

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wyager 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> making the UK one of the world leaders in this technology

Are they also planning on completely overhauling their economy and tax system to attract the engineers required to make this happen?

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macleginn 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm wondering how self-driving cars will solve the priority problem of narrow streets of UK towns where drivers need to let each other pass all the time.

	▲	tim333 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've wondered that myself. It seems quite challenging for human drivers at times. Around Ladbroke Grove you quite often get some complicated jam with two busses and about ten cars stuck.

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IshKebab 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah I'll believe this when I see it. Most UK roads are significantly harder to drive on than anything in the US. That's why they always test these things in Milton Keynes.

Also a lot of UK driving requires communication with other drivers (letting people out, etc.) in a way that US roads don't. I'm not sure how driverless cars can handle that.

I really wish we could get them, because they're great. But I'd say we're talking 10 years behind the US simply because of the extra engineering challenge.