UK Government Lays Out Regulatory Pathway For Self-Driving Vehicles In New Policy Paper

• Published date: 02 September 2022
• Law Firm: Preiskel & Co
• Author: Jose Saras and Xavier Prida

The new legislative framework is aimed at fostering the government's ambition to capture a 6% share of the AV market by 2035 which the (DfT) has estimated could be worth upwards of '41.7 billion.

Background

On 19 August 2022 the government published a policy paper entitled 'Responsible Innovation in Automated Vehicles.' The paper put forward recommendations to support the Department for Transport's (DfT) roadmap for developing a legislative framework for Automated Vehicles (AVs). This updated regulatory framework will need to take account of the ramifications that AV technology is going to have on data privacy, data sharing and fairness principle (i.e., how the processing may affect the individuals concerned).

Data Privacy

AVs collect and process vast quantities of data from their surrounding environments. This has significant privacy implications regarding...