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Driverless Vehicles: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of rural roads on self-driving vehicles.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
13 Nov 2025
Answer
17 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of rural roads on self-driving vehicles.

  2. 13 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The Automated Vehicles Act 2024 (AV Act) sets out a comprehensive legal framework with safety at its core.The Act introduces a new authorisation process that will test self-driving capability and identify a corporation to be held accountable for vehicles ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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