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Driverless Taxis

  • Waymo’s driverless taxi UK rollout puts legal system to the test

    Legal

    The UK is set to become the first European country to welcome Waymo’s driverless taxis but lawyers caution that current laws are fundamentally incompatible with the technology. Last week, Waymo announced its UK launch will start with a small fleet of human-supervised Jaguar I-PACE electric vehicles “in the coming weeks,” before moving to fully autonomous [...]

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  • Uber ready to go driverless in the UK

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    Uber has declared itself “ready to go” with driverless taxi services in the UK, saying it could roll out the technology immediately if regulators give the green light. Andrew Macdonald, the taxi giant’s senior vice president of mobility, told the BBC the company is prepared to deploy robotaxis as soon as the “regulatory environment is [...]

    Shares in Uber tumbled more than five per cent in pre-market trading as earnings missed analyst expectations.

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