UK to allow driverless cars on its streets next year

The UK Government has announced that it will allow self-driving cars to ply on its roads from January 2015. The ministers have been ordered to review the UK road regulations to make appropriate guidelines for the same.

According to the report on BBC, the Department of Transport has pledged to let self-driving cars run on public roads by end of December 2013. UK engineers, including a group from the Oxford University, have been experimenting with self-driving cars, but they have been restricted to testing them on private roads.

According to BBC, Google’s driverless cars in California have already done 300,000 miles on an open road. US states of California, Nevada and Florida have approved testing of driverless cars. Nissan too carried out their tests in Japan, last year.

The Swedish city of Gothenburg has approved Volvo to test its 1,000 driverless cars, but is to be scheduled only by 2017.