Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill Debate
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Lord Rees of Ludlow
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Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill
Lord Rees of Ludlow ExcerptsWednesday 9th May 2018
(5 years, 11 months ago)
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Lord Rees of Ludlow (CB)
My Lords, we should welcome these attempts to clarify the wording of the Bill, but I suspect that it is a more or less hopeless task to agree on it. I am surprised that the noble Lord, Lord Borwick, did not want to change,
“does not need to be monitored”,
because that is a subjective question. For example, if you are in a taxi, are you happy if no driver is there? If you are flying in a plane, it will be on autopilot most of the time, but are you happy if there is no pilot there who can take over and is monitoring? The question whether one feels the need to have someone there monitoring is ambiguous. To say that there is no need for someone to be monitoring is going to be very subjective. For that reason, I suspect it will be a very long time before level 4 or level 5 automation will be perfectly acceptable.