Extract from committee stage (Lords) of the Automated Vehicles Bill - Jan 15

Baroness Randerson (LD):...Already operating in the UK are companies called Starship and Cartken, which is working with DPD  They are operating from West Yorkshire to Milton Keynes, from Cambridgeshire to Manchester to Bedfordshire. They operate what are called personal delivery devices—PDDs. This operates on a much wider scale in the US and several EU countries. Basically, it is robots; they mainly use pavements but occasionally have to cross the road. They are operated to provide deliveries, which, of course, means that they have to go off the road and up people’s drives as well as on the pavements...

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