{"id":243542,"date":"2026-09-02T21:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/uber-and-wayve-to-start-testing-robotaxis-in-london"},"modified":"2026-09-02T21:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:14:55","slug":"uber-and-wayve-to-start-testing-robotaxis-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/uber-and-wayve-to-start-testing-robotaxis-in-london","title":{"rendered":"Uber and Wayve to Start Testing Robotaxis in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uber-and-wayve-to-start-testing-robotaxis-in-london.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s medieval layout is a dense maze filled with cars, buses, delivery scooters, bikers and jaywalking pedestrians. There are roundabouts upon roundabouts. Restricted bus lanes emerge and disappear again. On one-lane streets, drivers traveling in opposite directions intersect and must coordinate in an unspoken language to get through.<\/p>\n<p>The failure rate for a driver\u2019s license test in London is just over 50 percent.<\/p>\n<p>This week, a small number of autonomous robotaxis will enter the fray, carrying London passengers for the first time. Fifteen cars operated by Uber and the British autonomous vehicle start-up <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/24\/technology\/wayve-ai-driverless-car-start-up.html\" title=\"\">Wayve<\/a> will be available for ride-hailing through Uber\u2019s app as part of a safety testing period. The cars will have a safety driver present to take over if needed, as government regulators weigh eventually approving wider deployments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city\u2019s medieval layout is a dense maze filled with cars, buses, delivery scooters, bikers and jaywalking pedestrians. There are roundabouts upon roundabouts. Restricted bus lanes emerge and disappear again. On one-lane streets, drivers traveling in opposite directions intersect and must coordinate in an unspoken language to get through. The failure rate for a driver\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}