Britain aims to become the first country to have driverless cars. Transport secretary Grant Shapps is pressing ahead with his ambition to clear the way for motorists to take their hands off the wheel, The Sunday Times reported.
Senior officials at the Department for Transport reportedly told insurance industry chiefs on Tuesday that lane-keeping technology could permit drivers to watch a film, send texts or check emails at the wheel from the summer.
But the government is stepping back from a plan to allow it at 70mph and is said to have signalled it will apply in stop-start motorway traffic at speeds of up to 37mph.
The technology, the third of five stages leading to cars that have no driver, was approved in United Nations regulations that
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