TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had taken a ride in several self-driving vehicles on public roads in the capital to showcase the technology ahead of this week’s opening of the Tokyo Motor Show.
Abe tried auto-piloting vehicles from Toyota, Honda and Nissan on the roads around Japan’s National Diet Building, as major international carmakers compete with the likes of Google and other IT firms to develop new types of cars with the goal of helping reduce accidents by eradicating human error.