UK companies are plowing money, resources and research into driverless cars in the hope they can be the first to get automated vehicles on the road.
The technology is still relatively nascent, so it’s not surprising that there have been bumps along the way to safely adopting it. Just last week, a self-driving Uber vehicle struck and sadly killed a woman in Arizona, USA. While no one can yet say for definite who was to blame for the crash, the unfortunate event signalled the first fatal crash involving an automated vehicle and has subsequently stirred up a lot of questions surrounding the technology and whether we are – or even if we should be – ready to adopt it.
The tragic crash has not put a halt on driverless car tech development and investment, though. In fact, Waymo’s (formerly Google self-driving car project) CEO John Krafcik told a National Automobile Dealers Association conference that he was “very confident that our car could have handled that situation”....