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Seventh Report - Self-driving vehicles
Transport Committee
HC 519
Published 15 September 2023
Recommendations
5
Deferred
Para 63
Require Government to develop a strategy for the future of human driving skills.
Recommendation
Greater automation will reduce time spent driving. Over time drivers may become less practised and therefore less skilled. Conversely, the demands on drivers will grow as they will be called upon to retake control of vehicles in challenging circumstances with …
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Government Response Summary
The government partially accepts, but then deflects the recommendation regarding a strategy for human driving skills and testing to focus instead on plans for digitising Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) via the Automated Vehicles Bill and the National Highways Digital Roads programme to support self-driving infrastructure.
Department for Transport
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