Initiatives of the Automated Driving Business Study Group

Abstract

To make Japan a world leader in automated driving and help solve social issues, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism established an Automated Driving Business Study Group in February 2015 to promote the commercialization of automated driving in a set-up involving Japanese industry, academia and government. As well as investigating the current status and future issues for automated driving both at home and abroad, this Group has examined which areas should be the focus of industry-academia-government cooperation. This paper describes the history of these investigations and uses studies carried out in FY2022 to show the direction of future initiatives.