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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Matt Watts

Uber 'ready to go now' with driverless cars but government pushes back green light to 2027

Uber is "ready to go" now with driverless taxis in the UK - but fully self-driving cars are not set to be approved on UK roads until 2027.

The previous Conservative Government said fully autonomous cars were "set to be on roads by 2026", but the Labour government says it is now more likely to happen in the second half of the following year, according to the BBC.

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