Easy Ride and the Minato Mirai Autonomous Mobility Pilot
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Nissan and DeNA ran the first public Easy Ride field test in Yokohama's Minato Mirai district from 5 to 18 March 2018, carrying 300 groups along a 4.5-kilometre route, and said a full service would follow in the early 2020s. It did not. The same brand returned on 27 November 2025, when Nissan, BOLDLY, Premier Aid and Keikyu ran a pilot through 30 January 2026 across Minato Mirai, Sakuragicho, Kannai and Chinatown with five Serena-based vehicles, three seats each, and about 300 pre-registered members of the public. Nissan's own footnote describes those vehicles as equivalent to SAE Level 2 with a safety driver onboard; the driverless Level 4 service is promised from the 2027 financial year.
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Five vehicles carrying three passengers each, Tuesday to Friday between 8:30am and 4:00pm, across 26 boarding points, for about 300 people who applied in advance and signed a consent form.
🎓 Lesson
The distance between the two trials is the finding: seven years apart, the same district and the same 300 participants, still a safety driver at the wheel, and a launch date that moved from 'the early 2020s' to the 2027 financial year.
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from 5 to 18 March 2018, carrying 300 groups along a 4.5-kilometre route
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said a full service would follow in the early 2020s
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Nissan, BOLDLY, Premier Aid and Keikyu ran a pilot through 30 January 2026
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five Serena-based vehicles, three seats each, and about 300 pre-registered members of the public
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equivalent to SAE Level 2 with a safety driver onboard
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the driverless Level 4 service is promised from the 2027 financial year
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Tuesday to Friday between 8:30am and 4:00pm, across 26 boarding points
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- Operator
- Nissan Motor with BOLDLY, Premier Aid and Keikyu, in collaboration with the City of Yokohama
- Actor types
- private, city-government
- Funding model
- private
- Funding description
- Not recorded
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- Not recorded
- Ownership
- Not recorded
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- Not recorded
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- Not recorded
2 source dossiers
Nissan — autonomous mobility service pilot programme in Yokohama (3 October 2025)
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src-f44831830f483558- Publisher
- Name not classified · global.nissannews.com
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2025-10-03
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- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-18
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-20
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
- Locator
- No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Nissan and DeNA — Easy Ride robo-vehicle mobility service trial (23 February 2018)
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src-2a097e08a1fa4dc5- Publisher
- Name not classified · global.nissannews.com
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2018-02-23
- Updated
- 2018-06-25
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-18
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-20
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
- Locator
- No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Easy Ride and the Minato Mirai Autonomous Mobility Pilot” — Yokohama, Japan. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/yokohama-autonomous-mobility-pilot/ (last verified 2026-08-18). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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