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Waymo will start testing its self-driving taxis in Tokyo next week


On April 14, Waymo will start testing its robotaxi technology outside the US for the first time.

As Yomiuri Shimbun reports, the company will deploy 25 of its electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles in Tokyo for the initial phase of its testing program. Drivers from Tokyo taxi company Nihon Kotsu Co. will be driving the cars around Chiyoda, Minato, Shinjuku and four other wards in the Japanese capital. Meta has announced that Patrick Collison and Dina Powell McCormick are joining its board of directors on April 15.

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