UK's AV Insurance Law in a Nutshell

For anyone with time and interest, I am linking the UK autonomous vehicles (AV) insurance law, officially named the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018. Please be aware that I am not a licensed barrister or solicitor in the UK and I have never received any legal training in that country. I will summarize the law anyway.

The law requires the UK government's secretary of state to compile a list of fully AVs that are permitted on UK roads. This list must be published and updated, though nothing in the law states how frequently the list must be revised.

No required insurance compensation under law if the AV owner/policy holder -

• makes his/her own software update that is prohibited under the insurance policy (which, of course, it would be), or
• fails to "install safety-critical software updates that an insured person knew, or ought reasonably to have known, were safety-critical."

Nice definition of a vehicle "driving itself," which would be level 4 or 5, where human monitoring and backup are not necessary.

I am merely glancing at the electric vehicle (EV) provisions of the law. Looks to me as if regulations can be promulgated that will compel gas station chains to have EV charging stations. That would, however, require a request by the mayor of a jurisdiction. A list is provided in the law of information  that must be "made available" at EV "refueling" stations - why can't they say recharging? - for the public. An interesting provision is the list of data that might be required to be collected at recharging stations.