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CYBERATTACK
RISKS OR ACTS OF
TERROISM: CURRENTLY
NO PROVISION IN THE
LAW FOR UNINSURED
AUTOMATED VEHICLES
(AVS)
Thatcham Research has warned there
is currently no provision in the law for
uninsured Automated Vehicles (AVs).
Thatcham Research was commenting
on cyberattack risks – including if they
are involved in cyberattacks or acts of
terrorism – ahead of the introduction
of the Automated Vehicles Bill 2024
– which is set to receive Royal Assent.
Together with the ABI, Thatcham
Research is calling for future AV
legislation to enforce the creation of
an accessible and dynamic record of
DLVA-registered vehicles authorised
(and de-authorised) in order to easily
identify automated functionality.
The MIB (Motor Insurers Bureau) is
working closely with the Department
for Transport and the Centre for
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
(CCAV) to understand the risks of
cyberattacks on self-driving and highly
connected vehicles.
"Cyberattacks on these types of
vehicles present a step change in
terms of risk, not least because of
the theoretical possibility of multiple
vehicles being hacked simultaneously,"
said Thatcham Research, "Considering
terror attacks, for example, the
potential impact of an event where
several vehicles are involved could
exceed similar attacks involving a
conventional vehicle, where typically
only one vehicle is used.”
BRITISH AI COMPANY SECURES
$1 BILLION FOR ‘CHATGPT FOR DRIVING’
THAT COULD ELIMINATE 99% ACCIDENTS
British AI company Wayve has raised
more than $1 billion to develop
Embodied AI products for automated
driving which the company said could
"eliminate 99% of traf昀椀c accidents".
The integration of Embodied
AI into vehicles and robots will
lead to a paradigm shift in how
machines interact with and learn
from human behaviour in real-world
environments, said Wayve, calling the
“potential of this type of technology,
transformative”.
Founded in 2017, Wayve was the
昀椀rst to develop and test an
end-to-end (e2e) deep learning
autonomous driving system on public
roads. Today, the company is building
foundation models for autonomy,
similar to a ‘ChatGPT for driving,’ that
can empower any vehicle to see, think,
and drive through any environment.
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