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Uber and British start-up Wayve launch their commercial robotaxi service in London on Sept. 3, 2026, although passengers will still have a human supervisor behind the wheel. The rollout makes Wayve the first company to launch a robotaxi service to the public in London, ahead of rivals Waymo, owned by Google-parent Alphabet, and China's Baidu, which has partnered with Lyft. Autonomous taxis are already operating in the United States and China, but London is only the second city in Europe to have them, after Zagreb, where Croatian company Verne operates the service using technology from China's Pony. ai, with a supervisor on board for safety.

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00:28Oh
00:46All right
00:49Regulation
00:49Oops
00:50So there we see that we had an intervention. This is exactly why we start with safety operators behind the
00:57wheel
00:57It's to ensure that we're operating safely and ensuring that this technology is scaling alongside the very complex and unique
01:07needs of London streets
01:24And again those blue lights mean the vehicles and autonomy the entire time
01:27Okay
01:45In the US it's more expensive
01:48And then they know what number
01:51It's scaling up a lot
01:53It's scaling up a lot
01:54It's going to be around the city
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