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“More than 50 cities across China have introduced testing-friendly policies for autonomous vehicles.”[0] Europe could do the same but they have other prioritie
by sharpshadow 1y ago
“More than 50 cities across China have introduced testing-friendly policies for autonomous vehicles.”[0]
Europe could do the same but they have other priorities.
0. https://restofworld.org/2025/robotaxi-waymo-apollo-go/ https://restofworld.org/2025/robotaxi-waymo-apollo-go/
- tim333 1y agoUK: >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
- macleginn 1y agoI'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 1y agoI'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.
- IshKebab 1y agoYeah 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.
- wyager 1y ago> 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?