Open call for evidence

Automated vehicles: statement of safety principles

From:: Department for Transport and Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Published: 10 June 2025

Summary

Seeks views on what safety standards should be sought for automated (self-driving) vehicles in the UK.

This call for evidence closes at
11:59pm on 1 September 2025

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.

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