A Justice Ministry panel has drafted an outline of a planned bill to revise the automobile driving punishment law, including an expansion of the scope of dangerous driving. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/25/japan/outline-scope-dangerous-driving/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #driving #justiceministry
Alex Akselrod
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Japan's next-generation ETC records and visualizes the driving histories of vehicles equipped with onboard units, and the government aims to harness this large-scale data for a variety of public and economic purposes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/japan/etc-data-use/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #expressways #driving #mlit #tourism #localgovernment #disasterpreparedness
Spotted in Houston: two hacked variable message signs. That the signs were placed on the sidewalk, blocking pedestrian access, makes the messages all the more urgent.
@cstross I've not driven stick shift since I bought my current car which, being electric, has only a selector knob for Forward, Reverse, Neutral and Park. But before that I was driving up to 50k miles a year, and it wouldn't surprise me if I have covered half a million miles in a manual
From perusing owners's manuals ahead of renting my first electric vehicle (which alas devolved into renting a plug-in hybrid) it appears that some electric vehicles have dropped 'Park' entirely from the knob, and just have R/N/D.
It's not clear whether this means that their automatic gearboxes no longer have a parking lock, or this has become a thing that is no longer under direct driver control (like the parking brake and the choke).
Tokyo police rearrested a 37-year-old man on fresh charges of dangerous driving resulting in death and a hit-and-run in the capital's Adachi Ward last month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/japan/crime-legal/hit-and-run-adachi-ward-rearrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #driving #theft #japanesepolice
Billy Smith
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“Ima pass these cyclists on a greenway and then cut them off while it's dark and raining”
The mother of a 10-year-old killed in a hit-and-run incident in Saitama Prefecture in 2009 submitted a petition to the Justice Ministry calling for the statute of limitations for the offense to be abolished. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/10/japan/crime-legal/hit-and-run-limitations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #trafficaccidents #justiceministry #driving #saitama
The government has proposed numerical criteria for driving offenses, including going over speed limits and blood alcohol levels, under a planned revision to the law on punishments for such acts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/09/japan/crime-legal/dangerous-driving-criteria-proposal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #driving #justiceministry #alcohol
“Ima pass these cyclists on a greenway and then cut them off while it's dark and raining”
Bereaved families and others mourned the nine victims of an expressway tunnel ceiling collapse in central Japan on Tuesday, the 13th anniversary of the disaster. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/02/japan/society/sasago-tunnel-accident-anniversary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #yamanashi #sasagotunnel #expressways #driving
A Saitama court handed down a suspended prison sentence to a 43-year-old Chinese man who hit a group of elementary school children with his car and fled the scene to avoid being caught for drunken driving. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/13/japan/crime-legal/china-hit-and-run-sentence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #saitama #china #misato #children #trafficaccidents #driving #japanesecourts
Creating an all-weather driver
https://waymo.com/blog/2025/10/creating-an-all-weather-driver
#HackerNews #Creating #an #all-weather #driver #Waymo #technology #autonomous #vehicles #innovation #weatherproof #driving
Even with granular rules in place, driver’s license conversion is anything but straightforward — and Japan Times readers had plenty to say about it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/10/22/issues/drivers-license-conversion-horror-stories/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #issues #expats #cars #driving #nationalpoliceagency #npa #japanesepolice
A minivehicle fell over in the city of Nabari in Mie Prefecture in the small hours of Friday, killing five of the six people riding in it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/japan/crime-legal/minivehicle-five-death/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #mie #tsu #driving #hospitals #japanesepolice
Japan Post has been served a notice suspending 111 post offices from using mini cargo vehicles for delivery services for up to 160 days, due to their failure to properly conduct roll calls for drivers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/01/companies/japan-post-mini-vehicle-banned/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #japanpost #mext #driving #delivery
The Justice Ministry on Monday presented a draft proposal to set numerical criteria for dangerous driving offenses, such as specific figures for speeding and drunk driving. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/30/japan/crime-legal/criteria-dangerous-driving/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #driving #justiceministry #japanesepolice #alcohol
A kindergarten bus crashed into a house in Chiba Prefecture on Monday, leaving the driver dead. Police are investigating the cause of the accident. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/30/japan/crime-legal/kindergarten-bus-crash/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #chiba #kindergartens #children #buses #driving
Japan's transport ministry ordered light commercial vehicles around 100 post offices run by Japan Post be suspended due to failures to perform alcohol checks on the drivers, among other problems found. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/03/japan/japan-post-vehicles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanpost #driving #postalservices #mlit #delivery
The bereaved family of a pregnant woman who died after being struck by a vehicle in central Japan has urged prosecutors to recognize her daughter, born after the accident with a severe disability, as a victim. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/03/japan/crime-legal/fetus-victim-prosecutors-urge/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #nagoya #japanesecourts #pregnancy #driving #disability