<ul><li>A Waymo self-driving robotaxi was spotted being pulled over by traffic police in Tokyo, Waymo's first offshore market for testing and data collection.</li><li>The image of the robotaxi stopped on the side of the road while a traffic cop on a motorcycle prepared a ticket garnered over 1 million impressions on social media.</li><li>Waymo's robotaxi rollout in Tokyo began in April, operated manually by drivers from Nihon Kotsu, with a focus on central Tokyo to gather data for adapting the self-driving system.</li><li>Despite the humorous incident, Waymo's self-driving system has shown significant potential for road safety with reductions in pedestrian injury crashes and crashes with cyclists and motorcyclists.</li></ul>

Waymo robotaxi finds itself pulled over by Tokyo police

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