The government is starting to put rules in place to accommodate self-driving vehicles, which could arrive on UK roads later this year. As part of that, it will allow drivers in self-driving vehicles to watch TV from an insturment screen if they are ready to take back control. Since 1986 a law has been on the books that prohibits drivers from viewing television while behind the wheel. The use of mobile phones was banned in the UK last year. That's because technology can be implemented to stop a car's built-in screen from displaying content when the driver needs to take back control, but not on a phone. The government decided that insurance companies and not people will be responsible for accidents in certain circumstances. Until an all-new set of rules can be put in place, the changes will be an interim measure. Self-driving cars are not yet legal in the UK, but the Department for Transport said they may be ready later in the decade. A year ago, the government announced that basic self-driving cars with automated lane-keeping systems could be on British roads by the end of last year. Self-driving tech was predicted by the UK government to improve road safety by reducing human error, which is a contributory factor in 88 percent of all recorded road crashes.
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