Driverless Vehicles: Pilot Schemes
(asked on 21st January 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have carried out safety checks on (1) Lyft, and (2) Baidu, as part of the self-driving car pilot scheme; and if not, why permission was granted to those companies to take part in the pilot scheme.
This question was answered on 11th February 2026
The Automated Passenger Services (APS) permitting scheme has been accelerated to spring 2026. As the scheme has not yet been introduced, no permits have been issued.
Operators and technology developers announcing their ambitions to operate pilot deployments under the APS permitting scheme is a vote of confidence in Great Britain’s regulation of self-driving vehicles.