“This time, the robot taxi experiment will be conducted on actual city streets. I think this is quite amazing,” the governor of Kanagawa prefecture, Yuji Kuroiwa, told reporters at the vehicle’s recent media launch, according to the Japan Times.
Shinjiro Koizumi – son of former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi – who is a ruling party MP for Kanagawa, told reporters: “There are a lot of people who say [self-driving cars] are impossible. But I think this will happen faster than people expect.”