Department for Transport announce trial of autonomous vehicles on the road to start later this year

The Government has committed to a “trebling” of previously planned spending on roads. But in terms of planning intelligently for the future – such as development and deployment of traffic management systems and technologies, as well as the increased use of data and information – the Department for Transport, while promising to “embrace technology”, merely offered to “continue to watch developments in technology, to respond to emerging trends, understand their potential…