Last 27 August 2021, Toyota Motor released a statement saying that they had suspended all self-driving e-Palette transportation pods at the Tokyo Paralympic Games village, a day after one of the vehicles collided with and injured a visually impaired pedestrian.
In a YouTube video, Toyota Chief Executive Akio Toyoda apologized for the incident and said he offered to meet the person but was unable to do so.
"A vehicle is stronger than a person, so I was obviously worried about how they were," he said, answering questions about the incident.
Toyoda said the accident showed the difficulty for the self-driving vehicle to operate in the special circumstances of the village during the Paralympics with people there who are visually impaired or have other disabilities.
"It shows that autonomous vehicles are not yet realistic for normal roads," he said.
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