Roboavtomobili appear on UK roads in January next year Bashny.Net

The UK Government was going to allow testing of unmanned vehicles on the roads of general purpose in the last year. However, the final decision is taken only now. First roboavtomobili appear in three cities . Which is - to be determined at the competition, to apply for participation in which the city authorities may to October. Between the three winners will be divided in the budget of 10 million pounds, which the government has allocated for this experiment, calculated for a period of one and a half to three years.

Participating cities to develop changes in the rules of the road on both vehicles in which the driver can at any time take over control of the machine and fully automated, in which there is no traditional authorities. In Britain, the development of unmanned vehicles engaged in the research group at the University of Oxford.



Drones are already allowed to drive on public roads in several US states. In 2013, the group spent the first Nissan roboavtomobilya test on the highway in Japan. In the Swedish city of Gothenburg scheduled to begin testing unmanned vehicles Volvo 100 in 2017. Most of the major car manufacturers are also actively working to create a fully autonomous machines. According to analysts, the first commercially available avtobespilotniki can be expected in the next decade.



Source: habrahabr.ru/post/231683/