Self-driving technology is moving in the right direction. But the road ahead is still long
This is Britain’s first commercial self-driving bus and one of the most advanced automated-vehicle schemes in the world. The trial, run by Stagecoach, a bus firm, began operating on May 15th and will continue until at least 2025. Jim Hutchinson, the chief executive of Fusion Processing, which designed the technology involved, hopes it will become permanent.
Artificial intelligence is in the driver’s seat. Each of the five buses on the route is controlled by computer processors, housed in a black box roughly the size of a briefcase. They are programmed to follow a set route. Some 18 sensors on the outside of the vehicle provide a 360-degree view of its surroundings, and send data to the computer many times a second. Anmodel, trained on over 1m miles of similar data, drives the bus.
British transport law has not kept pace with the technology. America’s federal government published its first legal framework for self-driving vehicles in 2012; by mid-2022 40 states had passed laws regulatings comes into force in July. Britain has “transport laws from the 1800s that make reference to horses and carts”, says Ben Gardner of Pinsent Masons, a law firm. “Some of these countries only have three or four decades of legislation on the books.
Much of the groundwork for further legislation has been done. In January 2022 the Law Commission issued recommendations on those questions and a host of others, preparing the way for one of the most comprehensive legal frameworks fors in the world. The government has said its transport bill will turn the proposals into law—but that was delayed in October 2022developers could take their products elsewhere, says Ashley Feldman of tech, an industry group.
Buses, lorries and cars of the future may be self-driving. But legislation still needs to be piloted by humans.
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