Self-driving car startup Nuro has begun testing its technology in Tokyo, the U.S. company’s first location abroad after partnering with Uber Technologies and Lucid Group.
Backed by the likes of Nvidia and Toyota Motor, California-based Nuro aims to compete with other driverless operators such as Google parent Alphabet’s Waymo and Amazon.com’s Zoox in the nascent market for commercialized fully autonomous vehicles.
“Obviously there are a number of Japanese OEMs that are very interesting potential customers to us in the future,” Andrew Chapin, Nuro’s chief operating officer, said in an interview, using an industry term for car manufacturer. He declined to name any possible partners or confirm if Nuro is currently in talks with a Japan-based automaker.
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