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Cars at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be equipped with Toyota’s “Chauffeur” software, which the automaker has previously described as “focused on full autonomy, where the human is essentially removed from the driving equation, either completely in all environments, or within a restricted driving domain.”

Toyota has a second AV product called “Guardian,” which is essentially an advanced driver-assist system, akin to Tesla’s Autopilot.

Toyota Research Institute, the automaker’s Silicon Valley-based division, has been conducting tests in the US at its Ottawa Lake, Michigan, closed-course facility for a number of years.

There, the institute “replicated Odaiba’s most challenging infrastructure characteristics and driving scenarios” for its vehicles to navigate, Toyota said.