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Wayve
Europe's own champion, and the only one. Wayve trains a single driving model rather than hand-engineering rules on top of maps, which makes it cheap to move between cities but harder to certify. It launched London's first public robotaxi service with Uber on 3 September 2026 — with a TfL-licensed safety driver in every car, because UK driverless passenger permits arrived only months earlier.
Furthest stage: Paid, operator onboard United Kingdom Owner: Independent — SoftBank, Nvidia, Microsoft backed
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Cities carrying passengers
Paid, pilot or invite-only rides, out of 1 tracked here. 1 more outside the US and Europe.
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Cities on the tracker
1 as operator.
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Countries
United Kingdom.
Where Wayve is live
Every city on the tracker that Wayve touches — as operator, as the app the ride is sold in, or as the stack underneath. A dot marks a city, not a service area.
- Paid, operator onboardAnyone can book and pay, but a trained operator rides along.
Boundaries from Natural Earth (public domain). Status is Wayve's own stage in that city: a city can be driverless for a competitor and testing-only here.
City by city
Wayve's stage in each city, furthest along first. Open a row for the launch date, the supervision level and the sources.
Europe1 with passengers · 1 tracked
London United Kingdom
Four operators in one city, and the only European market where a US, a British and two Chinese stack all compete. Every vehicle still carries a TfL-licensed driver, because the UK's driverless passenger permits only opened in May 2026.
Robotaxi
- WayveSupervisedSep 2026London's first public robotaxi service, on Uber from 3 Sep 2026: ~15 Ford Mustang Mach-E, safety driver onboard, city-wide except airports.
Sources: Uber IR · TechCrunch · electrive · Every operator in London
Rest of the world1 cities, context only
| City | Country | Operators | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo | Japan | Waymo, Nissan/Wayve | Testing | Waymo has mapped seven central wards with Nihon Kotsu since 2024 and targets 2027; Nissan, Uber and Wayve are piloting Leaf-based robotaxis from late 2026. |
Wayve in the news
1 entry from the tracker's timeline, most recent first.
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London's first public robotaxi service goes live
Wayve and Uber launch with ~15 Ford Mustang Mach-E and a TfL-licensed safety driver in every car. Uber IR
The company
What Wayve is, who owns it, and what it has actually deployed — the same record as the glossary entry on the tracker.
- Type
- Technology developer
- Headquarters
- United Kingdom
- Owner
- Independent — SoftBank, Nvidia, Microsoft backed
- Founded
- 2017
- Approach
- End-to-end learned driving, no HD maps, hardware-agnostic
- Vehicles
- Ford Mustang Mach-E in London; Nissan Leaf for the Tokyo pilot
- Scale
- ~15 vehicles at London launch
- Where
- London (public, supervised); Tokyo pilot with Nissan and Uber from late 2026
- Rides sold through
- Uber