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According to foreign media reports, the Japanese government recently adopted an amendment to the Road Transport vehicles Law at a cabinet meeting to promote the popularization of self-driving cars and ensure the safety of self-driving cars from the height of system construction.

It is understood that major enterprises and organizations hope to achieve autopilot on highways and open self-driving vehicle delivery services in sparsely populated areas during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, but under the current legal provisions in Japan, autopilot has yet to become a reality. So the revision of the Road Transport vehicles Law is undoubtedly good news for Japanese automakers.

Japan's Ministry of Land and Transport said it hopes to promote the commercial popularization of self-driving technology through this measure, with the goal of achieving L3 self-driving on highways around 2020, self-driving mobile services in specific areas by the end of 2020, and self-braking on new passenger cars with a carrying rate of more than 90% by the end of 2020.

At present, Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other car companies have been actively preparing for the layout of self-driving technology. Among them, Toyota launched a self-driving e-Palette concept car last year, which will be put into use during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. For other auto companies, Honda and GM have also joined forces to develop self-driving cars and carry out large-scale production and global deployment. Nissan and its ally Renault have decided to join Google's self-driving camp to jointly develop self-driving taxis to realize the commercial application of self-driving ride-hailing services.

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