A committee of MPs has been told the government needs to speed up the production of legislation to govern the use of autonomous vehicles, but the biggest challenge is persuading the general public driverless cars and buses are safe to use.
Siddartha Khastgir, head of verification and validation of connected and autonomous vehicles at the Warwick Manufacturing Group, told Parliament’s Transport Committee, “Right now as as a country … we haven’t been able to come up with a definition of what is the minimum level of safety required.”
“The government has come up with this concept of the minimum threshold being a careful and competent human driver … but we do not know how to translate that abstract concept into something that is engineering-implementable,” added Khastgir….