She also noted "the development of innovative insurance models as an area for UK leadership and a question Google are interested in”.
Google is at the forefront of developing driverless cars, and has been testing them in California since 2012, where they have collectively travelled more than a million miles.
The cars have a 'lidar' seystem that uses laser technology to spot pedestrians and traffic. Google hopes to make them public by 2020.
Although some have been involved in accidents , Google claims these have been due to human error rather than any fault on the part of the technology.
On one occasion, a driverless car was even pulled over by police for driving too slowly, after it was spotted doing 24mph in a 35mph zone. Google later explained it had capped the speed of its prototype vehicles at 25mph for safety reasons.
Meanwhile, in the UK, the government has already launched its first trials of self-driving cars . However, it will be summer 2017 before domestic rules are changed to accommodate the new technology, and 2018 for international regulations.
The government has said there needs to be greater certainty around criminal and civil liability in the event of a driverless vehicle being in a collision.
Authorities will also need to consider whether a higher standard of "driving" should be demanded of automated vehicles than would be expected of a conventional driver.
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