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How a Robotaxi Moves Into the Factory
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Toyota and Waymo will build a purpose-made, Waymo Driver-equipped version of the 2027 Toyota bZ4X at Toyota's Takaoka plant, with Waymo hardware integrated at that same site, for initial test and validation in Japan in 2027. This episode asks what that factory move actually proves, and what it still leaves unproven, across four tests: cost logic, safety record, scale capacity, and transfer test.…