A minibus decorated with All Nippon Airways Co.¡¯s signature blue and white logo motors across the tarmac at Tokyo¡¯s Haneda airport. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary bus, with a person sitting in the driver¡¯s seat ¡ª except no one is really operating the vehicle.
Reporters got a glimpse Tuesday of an autonomous airport bus experiment in progress. It is part of Japan¡¯s first series of experiments on automatic vehicle-control systems designed to carry passengers within an airport¡¯s restricted zone.
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