2024-05-05T11:37:00-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149973224/driverless-cars-hit-the-streets-of-milton-keynes Julia Ingalls 2016-10-11T20:49:00-04:00 >2016-10-11T20:49:30-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/81/81p0rc5rdp77j1ta.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Driverless cars will trundle around the UK in their first public trials today. The demonstration of the autonomous electric vehicles is going to take place on the pavements of Milton Keynes. These tests will be the culmination of an 18-month research project which involved virtually mapping the town and updating regulations for driverless vehicles.</p></em><br /><br /><p>For the latest on advances in self-driving cars:</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149964179/uber-lets-you-hail-its-self-driving-cars-in-pittsburgh-later-this-month" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uber lets you hail its self-driving cars in Pittsburgh later this month</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149953030/how-autonomous-vehicles-will-accelerate-suburban-sprawl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How autonomous vehicles will accelerate suburban sprawl</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149937226/this-startup-hopes-to-bring-autonomous-campus-shuttles-to-colleges-by-2017" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This startup hopes to bring autonomous campus shuttles to colleges by 2017</a></li></ul> https://archinect.com/news/article/138594315/milton-keynes-invests-in-driverless-cars-over-public-transit-infrastructure Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-10-10T05:03:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/04/04304869f26d47075ec3e45b54c13b68?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Milton Keynes is currently the host city for a set of driverless car trials funded indirectly by the U.K. government &mdash; the most ambitious testing yet staged in the world. If all goes as planned, by 2018, Milton Keynes&rsquo; downtown will be served by an on-demand, publicly run system of 30 to 40 driverless two-seater pod cars, which will allow residents to travel between any two points in the city&rsquo;s downtown without navigating or reacting to obstacles themselves.</p></em><br /><br /><p>For a glimpse of the LUTZ Pathfinder autonomous vehicles in action, check out the video below:</p><p></p>