Will driverless cars be allowed on pavements?

New rules to let self-driving cars break the speed limit or mount kerbs to avoid accidents are being drawn up in a'digital Highway Code'. And in a radical legal move, it could be the car maker punished if a driverless car speeds without justification or causes a fatal accident. One key question in an official review launched yesterday is whether automated vehicles should, like human drivers, be allowed to break the rules for a greater good. Should they be programmed to mount the kerb to avoid a child in the road, let an ambulance go past, or if two cars are stuck in a narrow street? New rules to let self-driving cars break the speed limit or mount kerbs to avoid accidents are being drawn up in a'digital Highway Code'.