US Self-Driving Startup Nuro Begins Testing on Tokyo Streets (1)

Self-driving car startup Nuro Inc. has begun testing its technology in Japan’s capital city, the US company’s first location abroad after partnering with Uber Technologies Inc. and Lucid Group Inc.

Backed by the likes of Nvidia Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp., Mountain View, California-based Nuro aims to compete with other driverless operators such as Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo and Amazon.com Inc.’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, ...