Is Uber ready to put driverless taxis onto Blighty’s roads? Commercially, sure. Technologically? Maybe. Legally? Definitely not. The government has pushed that expectation out to the latter half of 2027.
But even that date sounds ambitious to Professor Siddartha Khastgir, Head of Safe Autonomy at the University of Warwick. He explained to TopGear.com at the FT’s Future of the Car summit: “There’s a phase between having regulation… and understanding how you will use it. Self-driving cars don’t exist in the UK. They will, but right now, no.”
