Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018

A vote to support means

• —Supporting this Act means backing rules that make electric and self-driving vehicles safer and more trusted on UK roads. It helps protect people who are hit by these vehicles and ensures companies take responsibility for accidents, which encourages them to make the technology safer.

A vote to oppose means

• —Some people worry the Act doesn't go far enough to protect pedestrians from self-driving cars, or that it unfairly blames insurance companies instead of the manufacturers who designed the vehicles. Others think it might slow down the development of new vehicle technology in the UK.