东京都警视厅计划于明年春季成立一个专门负责调查和预防涉及自动驾驶事故的部门，警方表示。
Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department plans to set up next spring a section dedicated to the investigation and prevention of accidents involving autonomous driving, the force has said.
调查此类事故的原因需要高水平的专业知识和技能，东京警方希望积累专业知识，并在全国范围内开展自动驾驶试点的背景下，将经验分享给其他都道府县的警方。
High-level knowledge and skills are necessary to investigate the causes of such accidents and the Tokyo police hope to accumulate expertise and share it with police departments in other prefectures amid the spread of autonomous driving trials held across the country.
该部门将设在警视厅交通局内，负责处理第四级自动驾驶服务的申请——即在特定条件下系统可完成所有驾驶操作——以及事故调查和事故预防倡导。
The new section, to be created within the police department’s traffic bureau, will be in charge of handling applications for Level 4 services — under which a system handles all driving operations under specified conditions — as well as investigating accidents and advocating accident prevention.
叫车应用平台Go、美国自动驾驶技术公司Waymo和日本交通（Nihon Kotsu）于9月宣布，他们将于2027年在东京联合推出无人驾驶出租车服务，这将是日本首个此类商业服务。
Taxi-hailing app operator Go, U.S. self-driving technology firm Waymo and taxi operator Nihon Kotsu announced in September that they will jointly launch driverless taxi services in Tokyo in 2027, marking Japan’s first such commercial service.
该服务将采用第四级自动驾驶技术，公司计划逐步将车队扩大至约100辆。
The service would use Level 4 autonomous driving and the companies plan to expand the fleet to about 100 vehicles gradually.
政府目标是到2030财年，使全国运行自动驾驶服务的公交车、出租车和卡车数量达到10,000辆。
The government aims to increase the number of buses, taxis and trucks operating with autonomous driving services to 10,000 vehicles in fiscal 2030.