Self-driving vehicles are just around the corner.
The UK won’t sit idly by while the US, Japan and China put self-driving vehicles on their roads. The country’s government has announced an ambitious driverless public transport plan for 2021, including autonomous buses in Scotland and self-driving taxis in several of London’s boroughs, with state funding to the tune of £25 million ($33 million).
UK to get self-driving buses and taxis by 2021
Scotland’s first self-driving buses — which could provide up to 10,000 journeys a week between Fife and Edinburgh across the Forth Bridge — will get £4.35m ($5.6 million) of those funds. Initially, the single-decker buses will require a human driver to be present at all times, with unmanned tests limited to the depot.