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. β€œA vehicle is stronger than a person, so I was obviously worried about how they were,” 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. β€œIt shows that autonomous vehicles are not yet realistic for normal roads,” he said. The vehicle had stopped at a T junction and was about to turn under manual control of the …