{"id":24276,"date":"2026-08-05T14:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/leicester-square-please-guv-self-driving-taxis-cleared-for-london-streets-later-this-summer\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:37:28","slug":"leicester-square-please-guv-self-driving-taxis-cleared-for-london-streets-later-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/leicester-square-please-guv-self-driving-taxis-cleared-for-london-streets-later-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Leicester Square, please guv\u2019: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets \u2018later this summer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wayve Uber wins first minicab licence for autonomous cabs from TfL but vehicles will have a safety driver (at first)<\/p>\n<p>The taxi app company Uber and the autonomous technology developer Wayve have been granted the first minicab licences in London allowing them to offer self-driving taxi rides to paying customers \u2013 but with a human safety driver in place, for now.<\/p>\n<p>The companies said they would start trips in the UK \u201clater this summer\u201d before the full public launch.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/aug\/05\/self-driving-taxis-approved-london-summer-2026-wayve-uber\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/72f67547439060c547be790936d8923f19e398ae\/341_0_3413_2731\/master\/3413.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a412dedd0e1aa41f32687ed66b8dea0f\" title=\"\u2018Leicester Square, please guv\u2019: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets \u2018later this summer\u2019\" \/>Wayve Uber wins first minicab licence for autonomous cabs from TfL but vehicles will have a safety driver (at first)<br \/>\nThe taxi app company Uber and the autonomous technology developer Wayve have been granted the first minicab licences in London allowing them to offer self-driving taxi rides to paying customers \u2013 but with a human safety driver in place, for now.<br \/>\nThe companies said they would start trips in the UK \u201clater this summer\u201d before the full public launch. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayve Uber wins first minicab licence for autonomous cabs from TfL but vehicles will have a safety driver (at first) The taxi app company Uber and the autonomous technology developer Wayve have been granted the first minicab licences in London allowing them to offer self-driving taxi rides to paying customers \u2013 but with a human &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/leicester-square-please-guv-self-driving-taxis-cleared-for-london-streets-later-this-summer\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Leicester Square, please guv\u2019: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets \u2018later this summer\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24277,"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\/24276"}],"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=24276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}