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.
Section 2 of the Automated Vehicles Act 2024 requires the Secretary of State for Transport to prepare a Statement of Safety Principles that apply to automated vehicles.
This statement will be used in different ways across the safety framework, including:
- when authorisation authorities carry out vehicle type approval and authorisation checks (pre-deployment)
- when regulators carry out in-use monitoring and regulatory compliance checks (post-deployment)
- for annual assessments on the overall performance of automated vehicles
We want to understand how:
- the safety principles may be used
- the safety standard may be described
- safety performance could be measured
Some questions ask about the development of the safety principles themselves, while others ask how the safety principles may be used in practice.