View in browser Weekly Newsletter Welcome to the first Cars of the Future weekly newsletter! A UK-centric look at all the big self-driving news stories. We start with CAVForth in Scotland, “the world’s most complex and ambitious autonomous vehicle programme” – consider the Highway Code changes to “clarify drivers’ responsibilities” – we’ve got video of the police stop in San Francisco, “ain’t nobody in it!” and more. Enjoy. By Carsofthefuture.co.uk editor, Neil Kennett UK self-driving success as CAVForth bus project conducts first public road test A full-size autonomous bus took to public roads for the first time in the UK this week. Cars of the Future readers will recognise the name as, almost a year ago to the day, we published a long-read interview with Jim Hutchinson, CEO of Fusion Processing, one of the partners in the project... Latest news Read all UK Highway Code self-driving announcement sparks media uproar The national press went into meltdown and we’ll look at this in more detail in a special edition of Hyperbolic Self-driving Headlines. But it was enough to prompt senior CAM industry figures to come out in defence of the technology. Happy to go driverless? D-Risk reveals even 36/29/35 UK opinion split “The idea was to try and understand how ready the UK public is to adopt this type of technology. We provided a definition of what we mean by self-driving – a vehicle that can operate by itself between points A and B with minimal human interaction." “Danger Will Robinson moment for the fully automated self-driving vehicle industry” Read the article Full 3 minute video: Police stopping self-driving car in San Francisco by Brandon Melim via ViralHog As previously reported, General Motors–backed Cruise started offering automated rides to the public in San Francisco with no safety driver in February. On the night in question – hilariously 1st April 2022, April Fools’ Day (honestly, you couldn’t make it up!) – officers pulled the car because it was driving at night without headlights. Cruise later said this was due to human error.  Read more Would you like to sponsor this newsletter? Get in touch Featurebank Ltd 159 Northdown Park Road, Margate United Kingdom Unsubscribe