Tell your MP not to legalise delivery robots
Delivery robots are operating on UK pavements right now, causing chaos for pedestrians and with no explicit laws governing them
The Government is aware and it's people who pay the price.
For most people, delivery robots are a novelty. For blind and partially sighted people, wheelchair users, and older pedestrians, they are an obstacle, cause danger and create inaccessible pavements. Delivery robots have been banned in North American cities like Chicago, Pittsburgh and Toronto. We've now seeing them operating on public pavements across the UK: in Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley, Cambridge, Bristol, Milton Keynes and beyond.
They do so without any national regulatory framework and, in some cases, without consent from the local authority or local communities.
We're calling on the UK Government to provide immediate clarification whether current operations are lawful, and to create national regulations against delivery robots now, before robots take over more of our precious pavements.
Tell your MP not to legalise robots - let them know our pavements are not for sale.
