The Environment Ministry has developed a system to diagnose “environmentally efficient driving” and will request 60 million yen in the next fiscal year’s budget to produce 300 sets of the necessary equipment, ministry officials said Tuesday.
According to the officials, the system is the first of its kind. The equipment, about the size of a videotape and placed under the front passenger seat, will automatically analyze driving information from the vehicle’s control system.
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