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Toyota Motor said on Friday it 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
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