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Moving out of Kyushu and into Fukui Prefecture on the main island of Honshu, where local government has decided to setup an automated shuttle service taking tourists from the closest train station up to the famous Eiheiji Temple 6km away. The road has been cleaned up and prepared to allow for pedestrians (tourists, pilgrims etc) […]
Suburban automated driving in Chiba… and a crash
For someone who has supposedly travelled through much of Japan, it is rather embarrassing to say that I haven’t actually travelled extensively to any part of Chiba. Apart from shuttling to and from Narita Airport to fly abroad, and having friends in Funabashi, but that doesn’t really count. Adjacent to Tokyo, Chiba is one of […]
Kyoto: Uber, Doshisha University, and more golf carts
Whenever visitors come to visit us in Japan, we find they are inevitably travelling to Kyoto for a few days as part of the trip. But beyond its myriad temples, illustrious history and tourist hordes, in recent years Kyoto has been quietly accelerating the number of automated driving tests across the prefecture. Already back in […]
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