Four UK cities including Greenwich, Bristol, Coventry and Milton Keynes have been chosen by the Innovate UK to trial driverless cars.
The formal trials are aimed at knowing how driverless cars could be integrated into everyday life across the country.
UK Government has already funded £10m for the driverless cars competition, and has the announced an additional £9m to fund the four cities.
Greenwich and Bristol will be working on individual projects to test the car, but Milton Keynes and Coventry will be working together on the the UK Autodrive programme.
The programme aims to better understand how driverless technology needs to develop and how people will interact with it.
The programme is also expected to help the public get accustomed to seeing such vehicle on the road.
Innovate UK lead technologist Nick Jones said: "Cars that drive themselves would represent the most significant transformation in road travel since the introduction of the internal combustion engine and at Innovate UK; we want to help the UK to lead the world in making that happen.
"There are so many new and exciting technologies that can come together to make driverless cars a reality, but it's vital that trials are carried out safely, that the public have confidence in that technology and we learn everything we can through the trials so that legal, regulation and protection issues don't get in the way in the future."
The trials are expected to last between 18 and 36 months starting from 1st January 2015.
