terça-feira, 1 de março de 2016

Project 2020, taxis without drivers begin to be tested in Japan Tokyo, March 1 (EFE) .- The Japanese company "Robot Taxi"



The Japanese company "Robot Taxi" began tests of a driverless car service in Fujisawa, south Tokyo, an innovation that is intended to implement for the 2020 Olympics.

For ten days, residents of the city may request a vehicle through installed application on smartphones, so they can go to the supermarket and then being brought back home with shopping.

A company employee is in the driver's seat during the trip, to make lane changes and stops at signals, while an automatic driving system performs the rest of the operations, as explained in "Nikkei" newspaper.

The company pretente the automatic service fully operate during the Olympic Games, in order to transport athletes and Tokyo tourists to the competition headquarters.

The Japanese government announced in October last year that vehicles without driver could circulate Tokyo in 2020, and you want to create a legal framework for this type of transport until March of next year.

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