A joint meeting of transport ministers from the Group of Seven economies and senior officials of global automakers is held on Saturday in the central Japan resort town of Karuizawa. (Kyodo photo)KARUIZAWA, JAPAN - Transport ministers from the Group of Seven industrialised countries agreed on Saturday to reinforce international cooperation in creating safety regulations to promote self-driving cars. To foster development of self-driving cars by automakers, the ministers pledged to intensify efforts to develop globally harmonized regulations and to seek to remove regulatory barriers to self-driving technologies at the domestic and international levels. To prevent traffic accidents triggered by cyber attacks on self-driving vehicles, the ministers recognised the need for action to prevent unauthorised access to them. The transport ministers' meeting, which ends Sunday, is the last of the ministerial meetings related to the G-7 leaders' summit in Mie prefecture, central Japan, in late May.

Source: Bangkok Post September 25, 2016 06:56 UTC