MAKE WAY FOR DRIVERLESS CARS

>Driverless cars, for which extensive testing starts in Britain in the new year, could be on the roads within 15 years, engineers believe.

And their introduction could save hundreds of lives a year, the UK’s Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) reckons.

The 25 million trials of driverless cars — officially called autonomous vehicles — have also been welcomed by road safety group Brake, which believes they could lead to “significantly reduced casualties on our roads”.