Open consultation

Automated vehicles: protecting marketing terms

• From: Department for Transport and Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
• Published: 10 June 2025

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Summary

Seeks views on protecting the use of certain terms in vehicle marketing so they can only be used for authorised automated (self-driving) vehicles.

This consultation closes at
11:59pm on 1 September 2025

Consultation description

The聽 protects certain terms from being used to market vehicles that have not been authorised as automated vehicles. This will help prevent misunderstanding by ensuring that protected terms are only used when marketing vehicles that meet our self-driving standards.

We are seeking views on which terms should be protected.

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Published 10 June 2025