Last year, in an accident in which an autonomous car came into contact with a Japanese judo player in the athletes' village of the Tokyo Paralympics and the athlete was injured, the Metropolitan Police Department took measures to stop the emergency even though the operator in the car noticed the athlete. I sent the documents on suspicion of accidental driving injury because I did not take it properly.
The document was sent to a car operator, a 39-year-old male employee of Toyota Motor Corporation.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, in August of last year, at the Tokyo Paralympic athletes' village in Harumi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, when I got on an automatically driven electric car developed by Toyota Motor and turned right at the intersection on the premises, I was visually recognized by the Japanese representative of judo. There is a suspicion of negligent driving injury due to contact with Aramitsu Kitazono, who has a disability, and a slight injury to his leg.
Kitazono was crossing the pedestrian crossing and missed the match because of poor physical condition after the accident.
At that time, electric cars were patrolling the premises for athletes and tournament officials, and while the operation of hitting the steering wheel was automatically performed, employees got in the car as operators to check the safety of the surroundings and respond to emergencies. Was there.
Subsequent investigations by the Metropolitan Police Department revealed that employees were aware of the crossing of athletes but did not take appropriate emergency stop measures.
The automatic brake also worked, but it was not in time, so the employee admitted that he was suspicious of any questioning and said, "I did not think that the athlete would walk on the pedestrian crossing as it is." is.
On the other hand, regarding the function of the car, the Metropolitan Police Department says that there were no problems such as breakdown as a result of the investigation.
Toyota Motor "continue to cooperate in the investigation"
Toyota Motor Corp. said, "We are investigating, so we will refrain from answering. We will continue to cooperate with the investigation." It is said that.