Toyota partners with Aurora and Denso for developing autonomous taxis

12:10:00 AM, Monday 15th of February 2021 | in automobile

Self-driving technology start-up Aurora will partner with Japanese companies Toyota and Denso to build self-driving taxis. The partnership will design, build, and start testing autonomous Toyota Sienna minivans for use as taxis by 2021-end. This was announced on Tuesday. Aurora acquired Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) in a separate deal which closed on January 20. It also saw Uber invest $400 million in Aurora.