{"id":19111,"date":"2025-06-10T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/uber-uk-trial-of-self-driving-taxis-brought-forward-to-spring-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:37:26","slug":"uber-uk-trial-of-self-driving-taxis-brought-forward-to-spring-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/uber-uk-trial-of-self-driving-taxis-brought-forward-to-spring-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber UK trial of self-driving taxis brought forward to spring 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Partnership with Wayve for London trial uses cars without a human safety driver on board for first time in Europe<\/p>\n<p>Self-driving Ubers are expected to appear on roads in London next year after the government said trials of fully autonomous vehicles would be brought forward to spring 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Firms will be allowed run pilots of small-scale taxi or \u201cbus-like\u201d services for public use \u2013 and, for the first time in Europe, without any human safety driver on board or in the driving seat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/10\/uber-uk-trial-of-self-driving-taxis-brought-forward-to-spring-2026\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ccf5c882b7cc6c42a29cdc3920c8686b1a9adfe4\/341_0_3413_2731\/master\/3413.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=edf094e2b9ae88301b66a97dbaf64360\" title=\"Uber UK trial of self-driving taxis brought forward to spring 2026\" \/>Partnership with Wayve for London trial uses cars without a human safety driver on board for first time in Europe<br \/>\nSelf-driving Ubers are expected to appear on roads in London next year after the government said trials of fully autonomous vehicles would be brought forward to spring 2026.<br \/>\nFirms will be allowed run pilots of small-scale taxi or \u201cbus-like\u201d services for public use \u2013 and, for the first time in Europe, without any human safety driver on board or in the driving seat. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partnership with Wayve for London trial uses cars without a human safety driver on board for first time in Europe Self-driving Ubers are expected to appear on roads in London next year after the government said trials of fully autonomous vehicles would be brought forward to spring 2026. Firms will be allowed run pilots of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/uber-uk-trial-of-self-driving-taxis-brought-forward-to-spring-2026\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uber UK trial of self-driving taxis brought forward to spring 2026<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}