What is London?

London is a major global city referenced in discussions about autonomous vehicle trials and telecommunications infrastructure. The material tracks its role as a deployment site for supervised robo-taxi pilots and as a hub for R&D investment.

• Apr 2026 - Host Neil Childers suggested that Starlink’s low earth orbit satellites could transmit messages from London to New York faster than undersea cables.
• May 2026 - Alex Kendall said supervised robo-taxi trials would start in London, Tokyo, and 10 other cities on Uber that year.
• Jun 2026 - Dara Khosrowshahi stated that pilots would occur in London before the end of the year.
• Jun 2026 - Sebastian Mallaby described London as a destination for American R&D money, calling it a “cunning British trick” to attract a billion dollars per year for the next decade.