Honda: Legend, Autonomous Driving Level 3 Model designation: Traffic Jam Pilot
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism:
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism designated the model for Honda “Legend” on November 11.
The model was designated as “automatic driving level 3 (manual driving at the request of the system), a vehicle equipped with an automatic driving device”.
Autonomous driving level 3:
This time, the approval was obtained for the automatic operation device (name: Traffic Jam Pilot).
Legend equipped with an automatic operation device is scheduled to be released within this year.
This automatic operation device:
The automatic operation device this time reduces the “load of the driver’s driving operation during traffic jams on the highway”.
Monitor the traffic conditions around the vehicle, including the vehicle in front,
Automatically operate driving on behalf of the driver,
While maintaining driving in the lane
A device that follows the vehicle in front.
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Honda Receives Type Designation for Level 3 Automated Driving in Japan”
Japan, November 11, 2020
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
today announced that it has received the required type designation for Level 3*1 automated driving from the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT).
This approval
enables the automated driving system to drive the vehicle instead of the driver under certain conditions, such as when the vehicle is in congested traffic on expressway.
Honda
is planning to launch sales of a Honda Legend equipped with the newly approved automated driving equipment (“Traffic Jam Pilot”) before the end of the current fiscal year (Ending March 31, 2021).
To promote commercialization of Level 3 automated vehicles,
the MLIT partially amended the Road Vehicle Act, and the revised act (Act No. 14 of 2019) took effect April 1, 2020.
By this amendment,
equipment for Level 3 automated driving
was newly added to the list of motor vehicle equipment subject to the safety standards (defined in the Ministry of Transport Ordinance No.67, 1951).
Key safety standards for automated driving equipment *2 1.Performance:
The equipment must not cause any concern that compromises the safety of vehicle occupants or other road users under the operable driving environment conditions.*3
The equipment must not operate unless all required operable driving environment conditions are fulfilled.
Before any of operable driving environment conditions become unsatisfactory, the equipment must warn the driver of the transfer of control (handover) back to the driver and must continue safe driving until the handover is completed.
When the handover cannot be made, the equipment must safely stop the vehicle.
The equipment must include a driver monitoring function to monitor the condition of the driver.
The equipment must adopt cyber security measures to prevent security threats such as unauthorized access.
Honda Global | November 11 , 2020
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