Riding in one, driving one, or asking for the record yourself
Decide before you confirm. In Greater London, an UberX, Uber Electric or Uber Comfort booking may offer you a Wayve car, and the match only goes ahead once you confirm it. The autonomous vehicle preference sits under Account, Settings, Ride Preferences.
If you are offered work in the driver's seat of one, get the terms in writing. Ask who your contract is with, who pays you, and who sees the record of each time you take control.
Ask for the record yourself. Anyone can make a Freedom of Information request, and a public body must normally answer within twenty working days. Our request to the Department for Transport is public on WhatDoTheyKnow, so you can follow it.
The Quernal provides general information, not legal or financial advice.
The practical end of the edition: what a rider, a driver and any reader can do.
- Wayve, Rides page, as read 1 October 2026
- Transport for London, response to The Quernal's Freedom of Information request FOI-2055-2627, 1 October 2026 11:52, with attachment "Incident Response - Wayve_Redacted.pdf". Not yet published by TfL; held by The Quernal.
- The Quernal, FOI request to the Department for Transport: Wayve London trial, incident reports and driver takeover records, 1 October 2026
- Matt Brazil On 7 September we told you we had asked TfL how often a human takes the wheel. This is the answer
- Dr. Leah Sandoval London's regulator holds no count of how often a human takes over in the self-driving cars on Uber
- Elena Marsh TfL says the person in the driver's seat is responsible at all times. Uber and Otto Car still have not said who employs them
- Tomás Reyes A count of takeovers would mislead, and London's rules for these cars are tougher than a minicab's