Google is considering trialling its driverless cars in the UK, the chairman of its parent company has revealed.

Eric Schmidt said that officials had proposed bringing self-driving cars to a city in Britain and that “eventually we will all be in self-driving cars”.

“One of [Britain’s] leaders suggested we pick a city and start testing there, so we are evaluating these things,” Mr Schmidt told The Telegraph at a Google event in Seoul.

“We have to get permission from the Government to have these things coexist, we have to go through country by country and state by state in the US, so we are working through that, it takes forever.”