It might not be enough for self-driving cars to be safer than usual cars as people expect more, experts say.
There is no easy answer as to how safe self-driving cars should be, an adviser to a new government-backed report has told the BBC.
Some cars, coaches and lorries with self-driving features could even be operating on motorways in the next year, the Department for Transport said. But the CDEI, an expert body which advises governments on artificial intelligence, says the question of how safe autonomous vehicles should be is not one science alone can answer.
"What we wanted to do was say there's not an easy answer to this question" said Professor Jack Stilgoe of University College London who advised the CDEI. He suggested that establishing how safe they should be was a democratic decision. Initially this would likely be whilst the vehicle was driving at slow speed on a motorway, such as in congested traffic.
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