BC Bans Self-Driving Vehicles on Roadways

B.C. legislation prohibiting the use of fully automated self-driving vehicles is now in effect as part of the province’s push to keep its roads safer. Changes to the province’s Motor Vehicle Act came into effect without fanfare earlier this month to ban the use of automated features such as driverless steering, accelerating, and braking on B.C. roads. “These new regulations will keep people safer on our roads and encourage even more use of active transportation,” Transportation Minister Rob Fleming said in a statement. “It’s another step in modernizing our rules to keep up with new technologies that are changing how people are getting around.”...