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The UK is making self-driving partially legal in the spring, so you should have an easier time in the cockpit. But you shouldn’t think of watching a movie or playing games on your phones while driving just yet. A report fromBBCnoted that theDepartment for Transport will allow autonomous driving modes that are limited to a single lane with a speed cap of 60km per hour (37mph). The government said that vehicles withautomated lane-keeping systems (ALKS) will have to take a GB-type approval to be classified as self-driving cars....

The UK car industry might have been hit hard during the pandemic, but fortunately,there’s a bright spark: newEVregistrations nearly doubled in 2021, according to theSociety of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). This is a rare bit of good news for the auto world. Inits annual sales snapshot, SMMT reported that the ongoing pandemic — in combination with thesemiconductor chip shortage— continued to have a negative impact on the UK’s car industry....

June has come and gone, but not without providing us with some insights on the ever-changing car market. Specifically,What Carhas revealed the stats of the new car sales in the UK and the best-selling car is… well, we’ll get to that. First, let’s talk about fuel. Petrol vs. Diesel vs. Electricity Out of the 186,128 vehicles sold, 59% were powered – unsurprisingly – by petrol. So let’s call stinky petrol cars the unfortunate overall winners of last month....

Channel 4, a TV broadcaster in the UK, hasannouncedthat it’s releasing an iOS app for Channel 4 News, and it will carry video, special reports, blogs and picture galleries. The app can be accessed with WiFi or 3G connectivity, and users can view the latest domestic and international news stories, plus the most important news from politics, science and technology, business and culture. Plus, all the Channel 4 News blogs, including Cathy Newman’sFactCheckand theWorld NewsBlog....

The UK’s Independent newspaper is to follow in the footsteps of The Times and Financial Times by introducing a paywall, except it will only apply to readers outside the UK,reportsthe Guardian. Launched in 1986, the Independent is one of the youngest UK national daily newspapers, and around half of the newspaper’s online traffic arrives from readers outside the UK, with total unique users at around 16m each month. As the Guardian reports, it’s thought that the initial target demographic will be “a couple of hundred thousand” users in North America who view more than twenty articles a month....