AppyWay has won the V2X Award at the Self-Driving Industry Awards 2026 for its work turning road rules into data that connected and automated vehicles can read.
The award was presented at the Turner Contemporary in Margate on Friday 16 October, where Dan Hubert, AppyWay’s Founder and CEO, and Jyoti Goyal, VP of Product & Engineering, collected it on behalf of the team.
Now in their fourth year, the awards are run by Cars of the Future.
The V2X category recognises connectivity-enabled services for intelligent traffic and fleet management, and this year the judges focused on a problem that sounds simple but has proved hard to solve: knowing where an autonomous vehicle is allowed to stop. In London alone, stopping, waiting, staging and parking are governed by four different legal acts, and each of the capital’s highway authorities maintains its own rule book.
The judges said AppyWay’s Traffic Suite cuts through that complexity by answering two questions for any vehicle, autonomous or not. Where can it legally pause right now? And for how long?
The question is no longer theoretical. Uber and Wayve began supervised autonomous rides in London on 3 September 2026, and Waymo and Baidu are also testing robotaxis in the capital. Every one of these vehicles has to pick up, drop off and wait within the same kerbside rules as human drivers. Those rules are set out
in Traffic Regulation Orders, which have traditionally been written for people to read, not machines.
This is why the judges also singled out AppyWay’s campaign for machine-readable traffic orders, which the Automated Vehicles Act assumes already exist. Under Digital Traffic Regulation Orders (D-TROs), traffic authorities in England will haveto publish these rules as standardised data from Q1 2027.
Dan Hubert said:
“13 years ago, I had a vision of digital roads, where you could check the rules at your destination before you even set off. But when I checked it, there was no data at all. And here we are, in 2026, and every eligible authority will soon publish its traffic orders as digital data, by law. That turns robots from headless chickens into homing pigeons, and it helps all of us make parking forgettable.”
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