{"id":1035664,"date":"2026-09-16T07:56:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035664"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:30:09","slug":"waymo-japanese-partners-target-driverless-taxi-service-in-tokyo-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/waymo-japanese-partners-target-driverless-taxi-service-in-tokyo-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo, Japanese partners target driverless taxi service in Tokyo in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s autonomous driving unit Waymo, Japanese taxi app operator GO and taxi company Nihon Kotsu said on Tuesday they aim to launch Japan&#8217;s first fully autonomous commercial taxi service in Tokyo in 2027. <\/p>\n<p>The companies said \u200cthey planned \u2060to \u2060start with a small fleet before expanding to about \u200b100 vehicles across key Tokyo neighbourhoods, subject to regulatory approvals \u200band the ongoing validation of Waymo&#8217;s technology and operating model. <\/p>\n<p>Once approvals are secured and the service is \u200bfully validated, it will operate \u2060without drivers \u200cand be available through both the \u200bGO \u200band Waymo apps, the companies said \u2060in a joint statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s autonomous driving unit Waymo, Japanese taxi app operator GO and taxi company Nihon Kotsu said on Tuesday they aim to launch Japan&#8217;s first fully autonomous commercial taxi service in Tokyo in 2027. The companies said \u200cthey planned \u2060to \u2060start with a small fleet before expanding to about \u200b100 vehicles across key Tokyo neighbourhoods, subject to regulatory approvals \u200band the ongoing validation of Waymo&#8217;s technology and operating model. Once approvals are secured and the service is \u200bfully validated, it will operate \u2060without drivers \u200cand be available through both the \u200bGO \u200band Waymo apps, the companies said \u2060in a joint statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035688,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035664\/revisions\/1035688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}