Edinburgh Park is a terminus of the CAVForth autonomous bus service and has hosted autonomous vehicle testing. No robotaxi service operates in Edinburgh yet.
Edinburgh has genuine autonomous transport infrastructure — the CAVForth bus corridor — making it a plausible early Scottish robotaxi market.
Transport Scotland is one of the more active devolved administrations on autonomous transport funding.
The UK's national framework — the Automated Vehicles Act 2024, which received Royal Assent in May 2024 — creates the legal basis for commercial self-driving services, with wider commercial deployment targeted from 2027. Edinburgh's position on that timeline depends on local trial history, transport authority readiness and operator expansion decisions. London's Uber x Wayve service, live since September 2026, is the template: supervised robotaxis booked through the Uber app, expanding toward fully driverless operation as the law and safety record allow.
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No. The city has AV trial history but no public robotaxi service yet.
The UK government targets wider commercial self-driving deployment from 2027 under the Automated Vehicles Act 2024. No city-specific launch date for Edinburgh has been confirmed.
Currently the only public route is the Uber app in London, where Uber x Wayve autonomous Ford Mustang Mach-Es operate with safety operators onboard. Other cities will follow as services expand.
Nationally — the Automated Vehicles Act 2024 establishes the authorisation regime, with the Department for Transport and the authorised self-driving entity (ASDE) model applying UK-wide, alongside the local transport authority.