Automated vehicles: statement of safety principles — call for evidence
Section 2 of the Automated Vehicles Act 2024 requires the Secretary of State for Transport to prepare a statement of safety principles. This call for evidence will be one of the first in a suite of public consultations to support the development of the regulatory framework.
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Closed call for evidence
Automated vehiclesstatement of safety principles
From:
Department for Transport
and
Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Published
10 June 2025
Summary
Seeks views on what safety standards should be sought for automated (self-driving) vehicles in the UK.
This call for evidence ran from
10am on 10 June 2025
to
11:59pm on 1 September 2025
Call for evidence description
We are calling for views on what safety standards should be sought for automated (self-driving) vehicles in the UK.
Section 2 of the Automated Vehicles Act 2024
requires the Secretary of State for Transport to prepare a Statement of Safety Principles that apply to automated vehicles.
This statement will be used in different ways across the safety framework, including:
when authorisation authorities carry out vehicle type approval and authorisation checks (pre-deployment)
when regulators carry out in-use monitoring and regulatory compliance checks (post-deployment)
for annual assessments on the overall performance of automated vehicles
We want to understand how:
the safety principles may be used
the safety standard may be described
safety performance could be measured
Some questions ask about the development of the safety principles themselves, while others ask how the safety principles may be used in practice.
View this consultation in Welsh
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