Robo-taxi for Shonan

[Taro Toporific]

Automatic driving "robot taxi" is coming to a town near you in Japan
国家戦略特区で自動運転の実験小泉進次郎氏「できるとこからガンガンやる」
MONOist / 2015-Oct-2 (goofy Google Translate)
…Automatic-driving technologies for “taxi robots” are coming to a town near you in Japan. The government has decided on national strategic zones for self-driving taxis…The first zone will in Kanagawa Prefecture in the city of Fujisawa. Plans are for passenger tests on about 3km of the main road of Shonan…
…in these tests “robot taxis” will drive autonomously but there will be a human driver that can manually override the robot’s system for safety.
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UPDATE
Here’s a new article in English with more/better details than goofy Google Translate.
Quartz (2015-Oct-2): Japan is experimenting with driverless, robot taxis

[matsuki]

That's not a robot....