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New legislation puts self-driving cars one step closer to taking to the roads in the UK
euronews (in English)
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08/11/2023
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s government signaled its intention to introduce new legislation to develop and regulate the sector.
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My ministers will introduce new legal frameworks
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to support the safe commercial development of emerging
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industries, such as self-driving vehicles.
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This is really important, isn't it,
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in terms of building social acceptance and trust
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in any sort of autonomous device or vehicle.
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So for Starship, we're at level four autonomy,
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which means that our robots, 99% of the time,
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are autonomous.
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They're operating in the world around them,
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understanding the world around them,
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and actually their environment that's around them.
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And they can then react accordingly,
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because they understand what they're seeing around them.
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They understand humans or street furniture.
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They understand cars and traffic lights.
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So that's why regulation is important,
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because if you're going to have companies put in vehicles
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or devices like ours, our robots,
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out into public spaces, the public
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need to be sure that that's safe.
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The last thing in the world that you want to happen
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is for a company that's not as good at that, who
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thinks they're better at autonomy than they are,
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to come along and for it not to work,
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because that'll set back the entire sector as a whole,
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because building trust is difficult.
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