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One man "fell over a bin" when he saw the car, Rachel Sims said A woman has been turning heads on the school run by driving her children in a replica American police car. Rachel Sims, from Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, bought the car which was built to promote the PlayStation video game Need for Speed. It has the words "Dodge City Police", "Emergency Response" and "911" on it. Ms Sims said although "one man fell over a bin" when he saw it, it was clearly not a UK police car and an officer told her it was fine to drive. The car was built to promote a video game Ms Sims takes her four children to school each day in the car The black and white Avenger car is fit…

Richard Westcott has a closer look at new driverless technology Google to build self-driving cars Driverless car UK test cities named UK to allow driverless cars on roads Changes to road regulations and car maintenance checks will be necessary to accommodate driverless cars on the roads of the UK, a Department of Transport report has confirmed. The government wants the UK to become a world leader in driverless technology. It will publish a code of practice in the spring which will allow the testing of autonomous cars to go ahead. Self-drive pods that will be tested in Milton Keynes and Coventry have been unveiled for the first time. The government promised a full r…