News / UK government launches consultation on driverless trucks - which could join the highways as soon as 2018

14/07/2016

The UK government has launched a consultation on the introduction of driverless vehicles on the country’s roads.

A document from the Department of Transport published this week, forecast that both freight and passenger driverless vehicles featuring a limited form of automation “which can be parked within ...

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