"People in a self-driving car should not be responsible if it crashes, legal watchdogs have proposed.

"The Law Commission of England and Wales, and the Scottish Law Commission, want legal protections to be introduced for owners of self-driving cars if anything goes wrong with the automation.

"This could include occurrences like speeding or running a red light."

Potentially a major spanner in the works for manufacturers here and will likely further delay the introduction of autonomous vehicles on UK roads, Which isn't necessarily a bad thing given notable incidents due to software issues etc.