- Home
- Technology
- News
Tokyo: Toyota resumes operations of driverless vehicles after accident
Toyota has restarted services of its autonomous vehicles at the Paralympic Games village in Tokyo following an accident.


Services of the e-Palette pods were suspended after a vehicle hit a visually impaired athlete last week.
Although the athlete did not suffer any massive injuries but he had to pull out of an event because of cuts and bruises.
The vehicles will now have more operator control and extra staff to ensure they do not hit any more people.
Aramitsu Kitazono, a member of Japan's judo team, was hit as he was walking across a pedestrian crossing on Thursday. Mr Kitazono was unable to compete in his 81kg category because of the accident.
In a statement late on Monday, Toyota said: "The vehicle's sensor detected the pedestrian crossing and activated the automatic brake, and the operator also activated the emergency brake. The vehicle and pedestrians, however, came into contact before it came to a complete halt."
The company said that operators would now be given control over how fast the vehicles travel, with two members of safety staff on board, rather than one, to help look out for pedestrians.

Suicide attack on security forces foiled in N. Waziristan, 4 Khawarij killed
- an hour ago

Atlantic Council and Pakistan's Finance Minister discuss economic cooperation
- 4 hours ago
Logitech made an Apple Pencil-like stylus for the Vision Pro
- a few seconds ago

Sudden rise in gold prices, go sky high
- an hour ago

Islamabad gets state-of-the-art 1.5 Tesla MRI facility
- 4 hours ago

Nestlé to slash 16,000 job adopting AI, automation systems
- 5 hours ago

New oil, gas reserves discovered
- 41 minutes ago

Tom Cruise, Ana de Armas part ways after 9 months
- 2 hours ago

Crackdown against TLP continues, more than 600 arrested in Lahore
- 2 hours ago

Revolution in medical science, blood group of human kidneys successfully changed
- 4 hours ago

Lahore most polluted city in the world, Pakistan tops in air pollution
- 4 hours ago

SBP reserves increase by $27 million
- 3 hours ago