Tokyo
Status
Cruise announced for mid-2020s
Monet Technologies announced for 2024
Nissan announced for 2027
Waymo testing 2025
Waymo
The first Waymo, all-electric Jaguar I-PACEs will arrive in Tokyo in early 2025. Our partner, Nihon Kotsu, Tokyo’s largest taxi company, will oversee the management and servicing of the Waymo vehicles. The companies are working closely together to train Nihon Kotsu’s team on operating vehicles equipped with Waymo's autonomous driving system. Initially, Nihon Kotsu drivers will operate the vehicles manually to map key areas of the Japanese capital, including Minato, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Chiyoda, Chūō, Shinagawa, and Kōtō.
Monet Technologies
Monet Technologies, a Japanese mobility service firm partly owned by Toyota, plans to test a self-driving taxi service in Tokyo's Odaiba district, starting in July, people familiar with the matter said Sunday.
The test will start with Level 2 partially automated driving technology and will examine the feasibility of Level 4 technology that provides fully automated driving under certain conditions.
The robotaxi service, partly designed to address serious shortages of taxi drivers, will use vehicles based on Toyota's Sienna minivan.
Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/02/11/tech/tokyo-robotaxi-service/
Cruise
"Honda Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Teito Motor Transportation and kokusai motorcars as Part of Aim to Launch Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Service in Central Tokyo
Honda is aiming to roll out its MaaS service in Japan in the mid-2020s using the Cruise Origin, a vehicle Cruise, General Motors and Honda are jointly developing exclusively for use in an autonomous vehicle mobility service."
"Co-developed with GM and Honda, the Cruise Origin will offer customers in Japan an entirely new kind of mobility experience. The purpose-built autonomous vehicle can carry up to six passengers with comfortable camp-fire seating. Approximately 500 Origins will be manufactured by GM for the launch of this new JV at Factory ZERO Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Michigan."
Honda to join forces with Japan taxi companies on driverless service
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Nissan
Nissan is planning to launch a self-driving taxi service in Japan in the financial year starting April 2027, the auto giant said on Wednesday (Feb 28 2024).
The company said it will begin trials of the commercial service in the upcoming financial year from April, using minivans in an area of Yokohama, south of Tokyo.
Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/nissan-plans-self-driving-taxi-service-japan-4155916
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