Wishing all readers out there a very happy new year 2018! With the end of the year comes reflection on the year past, hopefully providing insights to the year ahead. Looking back at 2017, I realized it’s been 9 months since I started this blog and am reaching the limit of what is available out […]
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) […]
As noted in yesterday’s post, it is getting difficult to find examples of automated driving experimentation in every prefecture in Japan. However, the changing map of population movement at a macro level in a given prefecture can offer us insights less into what kind of experimentation is necessary but more into how future mobility should […]
