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Japan Will Use Self Driving Taxis In 2020 Games

  • Quartz, Thursday, November 5, 2015 8 AM

China and Korea, take note. Japan will use the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to show the world it’s still a tech leader. One example could be an autonomous, self-driving taxi service, currently in development. Tokyo-based Robot Taxi will field tests by the end of next March, per its CEO Hiroshi Nakajima. The company is a joint venture between DeNA, one of Japan’s mobile internet pioneers, and ZMP, a robotics firm.

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