Hotels. Dogs. Employees. Delivery. What will Japan roboticize next?

Taxis, apparently.

Robot Taxi Inc. announced it will start experimenting with a self-driving taxi service beginning early in 2016, testing the concept on about 50 people in Kanagawa prefecture, which is just south of Tokyo. The self-driving taxis will carry passengers from their homes to local grocery stores.

Robot Taxi, which hopes to commercialize the service by 2020, says the self-driving taxis will drive partly on major city roads and will drive distances up to two miles.

Humans will be inside the self-driving taxis just in case.

[Source:] Wall Street Journal