Outside of urban areas, many American roads can be long, straight, and seemingly endless. If you’ve ever driven in the U.K., you’ll know the experience can be quite the opposite, with narrow and winding country lanes forcing you to stay alert for oncoming vehicles, pedestrians, and wandering wildlife.

Considering such challenges, the U.K.’s HumanDrive initiative believes Britain’s country roads offer the perfect environment for the kind of rigorous testing necessary for driverless technology. Together with Nissan’s European Technical Centre, HumanDrive is currently designing a 200-mile course through the countryside that it claims will be “the most complex journey yet attempted across the U.K. without driver input.”
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