Driving test of automatic driving bus at the Olympic sailing competition venue August 21 18:28
In Enoshima, Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, which will be the venue for the sailing competition at the Tokyo Olympics next year, a driving experiment of an automated driving bus that goes back and forth between the competition venue and the nearest station was conducted with the aim of introducing it at the Olympics.
The driving experiment was conducted jointly by Kanagawa Prefecture and Odakyu Electric Railway, and the prefecture aims to introduce an automated driving bus at the next Tokyo Olympics.
On the 21st, an experiment was conducted on a round trip of about 2 km between the planned venue for the Enoshima competition venue and the temporary bus stop near Katase-Enoshima Station on the nearest station on the Odakyu Line.
The self-driving bus checks the position with the GPS attached to the car body, and uses the camera and special sensors to understand the surrounding people and cars.
In the experiment, after the bus recognizes the blue and red signal information at the intersection, based on the information of the sensor provided at the intersection, turn right while checking the oncoming vehicle, or automatically stop at the bus stop on the way was doing.
Governor Kuroiwa of Kanagawa Prefecture who test-drived said, “I realized the progress of technology with very smooth operation. I hope that next year's Olympics will be close to fully automatic driving without a driver.” It was.
The driving test will be carried out until the 30th of this month.