{"id":53849,"date":"2015-02-12T17:19:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=effd7b0a8e0752d07e052124abcf0db8"},"modified":"2015-02-12T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T17:19:57","slug":"news-story-driverless-cars-a-green-light-for-road-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53849","title":{"rendered":"News story: Driverless cars: a green light for road tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Department of Transport regulatory review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/driverless-cars-in-the-uk-a-regulatory-review\">Driverless cars in the UK<\/a> has cleared the way for testing this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Trials will be held in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greenwich, South East London<\/li>\n<li>Milton Keynes and Coventry (working together as one project)<\/li>\n<li>Bristol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The review was launched at the first official trials of the fully autonomous Meridian shuttle in Greenwich this week. <\/p>\n<p>Its aim is to establish the UK as the global hub for the research, development and integration of driverless vehicles and associated technologies.<\/p>\n<p>A prototype of the driverless pod that will be tested in Milton Keynes was also unveiled by the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ts.catapult.org.uk\/-\/transport-systems-catapult-to-unveil-uk-s-first-driverless-pod\">Transport Systems Catapult<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catapult.org.uk\/success-stories\">Read more about the successful innovations supported by Innovate UK\u2019s Catapult programme<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/\">See Innovate UK\u2019s latest funding opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first UK tests of driverless cars on public roads are now a step closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}