3) Projects to Foster Public Acceptance

Abstract

Japan faces a mountain of issues related to mobility, including lack of transportation options in isolated areas as the population becomes older as well as a shortage of drivers in the logistics industry. As such, there are rising expectations that social implementation of automated driving technology can solve these issues. One priority for social implementation is the R&D of automated driving technology and the fostering of public acceptance along with constructing the system infrastructure. Therefore, as an activity to foster public acceptance, SIP-adus (Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) Automated Driving for Universal Services), form its first phase, have taken efforts to promote proper understanding of automated driving in society through communication and dialogue related to automated driving with citizens, local government officials, and business operators in the traffic industry. We also widely shared the activities of local governments and businesses related to social implementation of automated driving and promoted cooperation across Japan to learn about issues and successful case examples. This document provides an overview of these activities.