Automated vehicles: statement of safety principles
Call for evidence description
We are calling for views on what safety standards should be sought for automated (self-driving) vehicles in the UK.聽聽
鈥痳equires the Secretary of State for Transport to prepare a Statement of Safety Principles that apply to automated vehicles.聽聽
This statement will be used in different ways across the safety framework, including:聽
- when authorisation authorities carry out vehicle type approval and authorisation checks (pre-deployment)聽
- when regulators carry out in-use monitoring and regulatory compliance checks (post-deployment)聽
- for annual assessments on the overall performance of automated vehicles聽
We want to understand how:聽
- the safety principles may be used聽
- the safety standard may be described聽
- safety performance could be measured聽
Some questions ask about the development of the safety principles themselves, while others ask how the safety principles may be used in practice.