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Waymo's Robotaxis Are Coming to London

by standardUser on 10/15/25, 9:36 AM with 6 comments

• by falcor84 on 10/15/25, 10:22 AM

  > its first international service could be Waymo's biggest challenge yet

  Waymo have been testing/operating in Tokyo for about half a year now, so this would actually be their second international territory.

  Fortune have a somewhat better writeup - https://fortune.com/2025/10/15/waymo-expand-europe-london-la...

• by SideburnsOfDoom on 10/15/25, 11:19 AM

  Wayve (1) are driving similar test vehicles in London

  Apparently they're not affiliated with Waymo, rather they are a competitor (2)

  1) https://wayve.ai/

  2) https://techfundingnews.com/wayve-2-billion-microsoft-softba...

• by ChrisArchitect on 10/15/25, 4:26 PM

  Official post: https://waymo.com/blog/2025/10/hello-london-your-waymo-ride-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590470)

• by senkora on 10/15/25, 1:42 PM

  I wonder how much engineering was needed to adapt to driving on the left side of the road.

  I imagine that for some things you just flip a switch, but for anything neural there could be learned associations where certain objects or events are more common on certain sides of the road. I guess that Tesla would he more effected by that given their end-to-end neural architecture.