About a year ago in May 2016, Japan was showcasing its automated driving technology to the world at the Iseshima G7 Summit in Mie Prefecture. This was the first truly high-level showcase of its technologies since the Tokyo ITS World Congress in 2013, where sleek automated buses shuttled visitors around on predefined routes. It was […]
Four years ago, I wrote on this blog that the impact of automated driving would be felt both in the metropolis but also outside the big city, where mobility is more challenging to run economically. Today I believe the same to be true. That more than ever we should be striving for automated driving in […]
The Nara region contains some of the earliest records and vestiges of Japan transitioning from prehistory into history. The 8th century Asuka and Nara eras, named after the cities where the imperial centers were based, witnessed the first time Japan was ruled nationally from a single region. It was also the beginning of recorded literature, […]
