Next week, Vimo’s drivers will begin to test the first international trip to the alphabetical company on public roads in Japan. Vemo has not yet confirmed whether it will eventually launch a trade robotics service in the country, but the company is still celebrating the tour as a “important milestone”.
Vemo describes it as an easy “road trip” to collect data about Japanese driving nuances, which includes navigating left -handed traffic and dense urban environment. Vehicles will be manufactured manually for the purposes of collecting mapping data and will be managed by a local taxi fleet operator, Nahon Koto. About 25 25 vehicles are being sent, already seen in a parking lot in Tokyo.
As the LinkedIn has noted that the user has published the pictures, the engineers of Vemo will finish their work for them. Tokyo is merely a part of the environmental environment, which includes “tight, shaking roads”, and thousands of pedestrians and cyclists integrate into traffic without interruption.
Vehicles will be manually operated for mapping data collecting purposes
Wemo says trained drivers through Nahon Koto will manually visit vehicles in seven central Tokyo wards, including Manato, Shinjuko, Shibuia, Chewda, Chai, Shangwa and Katie. Vemo first works manually when it arrives in a new city so that its engineers can collect data on local traffic samples and road features.
Although the company’s vehicles have just arrived, Vemo says it is already laying the foundation of a famous taxi app in Japan, the foundation of the GO, training drivers and fleet organizers. The company is also in harmony with local officials, government agencies, and first respondents for tests.
“In Tokyo, we are following the principles that guide us in the United States,” said Nicole Jewel, head of Business Development in Vemo.
When Vimo tests its vehicles in Japan, the country’s west of the island is directly increasing its driverless operations. China’s Apollo Go Robotics Service says it completed 1.1 million paid driver lace rides in the fourth quarter of 2024 and is spreading to Hong Kong soon. Like Vemo, Apollo Goo says it is performing an average of 200,000 salaries every week.
