1st test run of remotely operated vehicles starts
June 27, 2017
CHATAN, OKINAWA PREF.- Japan on Monday started tests of driverless small electric carts in Chatan, Okinawa Prefecture, the first trial in the country for remotely operated vehicles.
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, or AIST, will hold the experiments for two years in the town of the southernmost prefecture to identify technical problems and verify safety.
The four-seaters traveled about one kilometer along an electromagnetic induction line on a walk near a resort hotel. Its speed was 8 kilometers per hour. (Jiji Press)
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