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Driverless car firms battle to rule the roads in London
The Observer
|October 19, 2025
The race to bring self-driving cars to the UK is on. On Wednesday, Waymo said it plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London in 2026 the first European city to host the technology.
The announcement landed days after reports that Waymo's UK rival - the similarly named Wayve - is in talks to raise up to $2bn, in a round led by Microsoft and SoftBank that could value it at about $8bn.
The UK government introduced rules in May last year to allow fully driverless vehicles on its roads. Waymo's robotaxis are already a familiar sight in parts of San Francisco and four other US cities, where they deliver 1.3m rides a month. Owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet, the firm has further plans to expand across the US and into Japan in 2026.
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