The very first self-driving vehicles to come to Britain will be unmarked to avoid other motorists knocking their brakes or driving unpredictably to see how they respond.
As per the Observer, Erik Coelingh, the senior technical leader at Volvo, has stated the vehicles are going to be unmarked ‘to be on the safe side’.
He informed the paper: ‘From the outdoors you will not see that it’s a self-driving vehicle. From a simply clinical viewpoint it would be interesting to have some automobiles that are marked as self-driving automobiles and some that are not and see whether other roadway users respond in a different way.
A current research study by the London School of Economics discovered that aggressive motorists will aim to ‘bully’ the users of self-driving automobiles as they will be viewed as ‘easy prey’, since they will follow the Highway Code.
Drivers talked for the study admitted they would ‘nip round’ the automobiles when they were stopped and they would have the ability to ‘mug them off’.
One UK individual composed: ‘We’ll be overwhelmed by niceness. They’re never ever going to do anything terrible to us.
‘They’re nice vehicles. They’re not going to cut us up or get up our behinds and all the other things.’
The research study discovered that those drivers who were more open up to the concept of self-driving vehicles on the road were those who were more ‘combative’ in their driving design.
Driverless vehicles trials have been happening in Japan and are set to start in Sweden next year. When the trials pertain to Britain, parts of the M4 will be utilized by drivers who can change to self-driving mode.
They could be on the roads as quickly as 2020.
