Toyota and Waymo Advance Autonomous Driving Collaboration for Safer Streets and Freedom of Movement for All

Toyota and Waymo announced the next phase of their autonomous driving collaboration, building on their April 2025 preliminary agreement, with initial operations to test and validate an autonomous Toyota bZ4X fleet in Japan in 2027 and planned deployment to the United Kingdom and other Waymo-serviced markets in following years. Toyota will build the vehicles at its Takaoka plant in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, handling everything from base vehicle assembly to integration of Waymo's AV hardware, pairing Toyota's manufacturing and vehicle development with Waymo's fully autonomous technology to scale safety-validated Level 4 vehicles globally. The companies will also continue exploring autonomous driving for personally owned Toyota vehicles and, alongside Woven by Toyota, initiatives supporting fewer road safety incidents.