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## Transcript

Hands free cars are clear to start testing in the UK after a government investigation found there were no legal speed bumps in the way. And the funding is all set. The Telegraph reports" Chancellor George Osborne committed 20 million pounds in funding the quest for driverless cars in the 2014 Budget .". Cars in the 2014 budget. The first vehicle to get to test drive on is the deluxe pathfinder a product of transport systems catapult. A government incubator focused on transit technology. It should be practically impossible to mistake for anything else. It's basically a golf cart but what a golf cart it is.

The path finder is coated with sensors, radar, lidar, touch sensitive bumpers and wide- field cameras. It uses them together to build as complete a picture of its environment as possible. It will carry two passengers 40 miles at up to 15 miles per hour. And inside, while there is a steering wheel at the moment, they couldn't resist putting a racing steering wheel on it, but all of this will be gone. The pedals will be gone eventually. And you'll just be left with these screens. It bears some similarities to Google's latest driverless car, simple, tiny, and missing all the traditional inputs of a driver's seat.

Of course Google and other companies are working on driverless cars that actually look like cars, too. But in the US, as in the UK, legislation has yet to catch all the way up to advances in driverless. Driverless tech. The UK's driverless plan will require revisions to highway code and new laws to determine who's at fault in the event of a collision. The BBC reports the UK government has indicated it will make a full review of current legislation by 2017.

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