Next week, Wemo’s driver will be vehicles Start testing on public roads in Japan For the first international visit of the alphabet company. Wemo has not yet confirmed whether it will eventually start a commercial robotaxi service in the country, but the company is still celebrating the tour as a “important milestone”.
Wemo describes it as a simple “Road Travel” To collect data about the nuances of Japanese driving, including left -handed traffic and navigating a dense urban environment. Vehicles will be manually operated for the purposes of collecting mapping data and managed by a local taxi fleet operator, Nihon Kottsu. About 25 vehicles are being sent, already already Is spotted In a parking lot in Tokyo.
As the linkeded is noted by the user Those who posted the pictures, the engineers of Wemo must have cut their work for them. Tokyo includes “tight, curved roads” and thousands of pedestrians and cyclists to merge with vehicle traffic “tight, curved roads” and thousands of pedestrians and cyclists.
Vehicles will be manually operated for the objectives of collecting mapping data
Vemo says that trained driver employed by Nihon Kottsu will manually navigate vehicles in seven mid -Tokyo wards, including Minato, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Chioda, Cho, Shingawa and Koto. The Wemo is manually operated when it first reaches a new city to collect data on local traffic patterns and road facilities.
Even though the company’s vehicles have just arrived, Wemo says that it is already carrying groundwork, training drivers and fleet managers from a popular taxi app Go. The company is also coordinating with local officials, government agencies and first respondents for testing.
“In Tokyo, we are following the same stable principles that guide us in America – commitment to security, dedication to acqu aboutrate confidence in communities, where we operate, and collaborate with local authorities and community groups in Tokyo,” Nicole Gyel said, in a statement, in a statement, the prominent of business development and strategic participation in Vemo.
As Vemo tests its vehicles in Japan, the country is directly increasing its own driverless operations in the west of the island nation. China’s Apollo Go Robotaxi Service It is said that it completed 1.1 million paid driverless rides In the fourth quarter of 2024 and soon Hong Kong is expanding. Like Wemo, Apollo Go says it is performing an average of 200,000 paid trips each week.
