Futuristic'driverless pods' are transporting passengers around a shopping centre near Bristol as part of a trial that could see them rolled out across the UK. The trial is being run by infrastructure company AECOM and, if successful, could lead to a full'open road' trial later in the year. AECOM is testing the vehicles at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway, just north of Bristol to see how they navigate large everyday obstacles. The British-made electric vehicles operate entirely autonomously, so the team wanted to test them in an area with pedestrians, scooters, bikes and animals. This is the first trial of the future transportation solution that will not have a'supervisor' monitoring the controls while passengers are inside the moving pod For the trial a pod will drive between the shopping centre and its car park, giving people a'taster' of what it is like to travel inside, says AECOM.