Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, August 28 (Reporters Wang Zijiang and Liu Jinhui) The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee recently revealed that the Japanese blind judo athlete Kitaen Shinko was hit by an autonomous bus in the Paralympic Village and injured his head. Quit the race; all self-driving buses in the village have stopped operating.
The picture shows an unmanned electric vehicle taken in the Olympic Village of the Tokyo Olympics on June 20. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Zijiang
During the Tokyo Olympics, the self-driving bus launched by Toyota became a scene of the Olympic Village and received a lot of attention. According to reports, the accident happened at 2 pm on August 26. The self-driving bus hit the North Park Shin Kong when it turned right into the crosswalk. He was injured in the head and legs originally planned to race on the 28th, and it will take two weeks to recover. .
Blind judo athletes are divided into three vision levels B1, B2, and B3 according to the degree of vision. The 30-year-old Beiyuan Xinguang participated in the men's 81kg B2 level competition. The introduction of Kitaen Shinko on the list of the Japanese Paralympic delegation was "narrow vision."
The picture shows the injured athlete Beiyuan Xinguang.
According to Hidefumi Takahashi, vice chairman of the Japanese Paralympic Committee, Kitaen Shinko’s injuries were not serious, but after the accident, his appetite decreased and his condition was very poor. To be on the safe side, he accepted the doctor’s advice and decided to withdraw from the book. The Paralympic Games.
However, Takahashi Hidefumi also said that Beiyuan Shinko himself did not know whether the self-driving bus hit him, but he did fall to the ground and injured his head.
After the accident, the police went to the scene to investigate. According to reports, there were two operators and five passengers on the bus at the time of the accident, and none of them were injured.
Toyota subsequently apologized for the accident, saying it was "overconfident" about autonomous driving and decided to stop the autonomous bus service in the Paralympic Village. Toyota President Akio Toyoda said: "This accident has caused people's concern, and we are very sorry for that."
Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee's Olympic organizer Nakamura Hidemasa also issued an apology and said that the police are further investigating the cause of the accident.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
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