Wayve and Uber have begun offering paid, self-driving taxi rides in London using a fleet of 15 electric Ford Mustangs fitted with Wayve's AI driving system, putting them ahead of rival Waymo, which is still in a testing phase in the city. The rides currently require a trained, TfL-licensed safety driver on board to intervene if needed, so the cars are not yet driverless in the way some Waymo vehicles are elsewhere. The launch is as much about gathering real-world data from paying passengers to refine future versions of the technology as it is about the service itself.

At a launch event, Wayve also unveiled its next-generation vehicle, a Nissan LEAF built with Nvidia DRIVE Hyperion hardware and sensors integrated into the car's design, which the company hopes could eventually operate without a safety driver. That upgrade is expected on UK roads next year, subject to technology and regulatory approval, though the LEAF will debut first in Tokyo. Wayve, founded in London in 2017 and training its AI on the city's streets since 2018, partnered with Uber in 2024 in a deal covering deployment across 12 markets worldwide, starting with London.