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Japan to amend traffic laws to promote self-driving vehicles

People cross a road during the morning rush hour in Tokyo on July 15, 2021. (Reuters photo)

TOKYO: Japan's government plans to amend traffic laws to allow level four autonomous vehicles to drive on some roads and will ask lawmakers to approve the change as early as this month.

The government wants to make the change in order to promote services using self-driving vehicles, the Nikkei newspaper said.

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