{"id":5156,"date":"2026-09-03T08:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/watch-bbc-travels-in-self-driving-uber-around-london\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:14:11","slug":"watch-bbc-travels-in-self-driving-uber-around-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/watch-bbc-travels-in-self-driving-uber-around-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: BBC travels in self-driving Uber around London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: BBC travels in self-driving Uber around London<\/p>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/myTXu2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Customers in London can now travel in the UK&#8217;s first robotaxis as Uber launches its self-driving minicab on Thursday &#8211; the company is the first to launch the service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Initially, it only has 15 autonomous vehicles with a licence to operate in the city, and each one must have a human safety driver behind the wheel ready to take control if anything goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the moment, the UK fare for a robotaxi ride will be the same fare as a standard UberX, Uber Electric, or Uber Comfort journey, with upfront fares shown in the app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s Zoe Kleinman was the first British journalist to hail a self-driving Uber in London &#8211; here&#8217;s how the ride went.<\/p>\n<p>Published at Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:20:23 +0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: BBC travels in self-driving Uber around London Customers in London can now travel in the UK&#8217;s first robotaxis as Uber launches its self-driving minicab on Thursday &#8211; the company is the first to launch the service. Initially, it only has 15 autonomous vehicles with a licence to operate in the city, and each one&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/watch-bbc-travels-in-self-driving-uber-around-london\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch: BBC travels in self-driving Uber around London<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}