Toyota Motor said on Friday it had suspended all self-driving e-Palette transportation pods at the Tokyo Paralympic Games village, a day after one of the vehicles collided with and injured a visually impaired pedestrian. In a YouTube video, Toyota Chief Executive Akio Toyoda apologized for the incident and said he offered to meet the person but was unable to do so. βA vehicle is stronger than a person, so I was obviously worried about how they were,β he said, answering questions about the incident. Toyoda said the accident showed the difficulty for the self-driving vehicle to operate in the special circumstances of the village during the Paralympics with people there who are visually impaired or have other disabilities. βIt shows that autonomous vehicles are not yet realistic for normal roads,β he said. The vehicle had stopped at a T junction and was about to turn under manual control of the …
Toyota Halts All Self-Driving E-palette Vehicles After Olympic Village Accident
August 27, 2021
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