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Safe vehicle devised for physically handicapped

TOKYO, Japan - An official of InfoCom Research Inc., an independent administrative entity, drives a new vehicle for physically handicapped and elderly people in a public road test March 13. The four-wheeled, electric vehicle, dubbed the Intelligent City Walker (ICW), is equipped with various IT features, such as infrared and ultrasonic sensors, which allow it to receive traffic information from cameras fixed to electric poles and other sites and then automatically avoid barriers. InfoCom will continue studies in a bid to make the whole ICW system available for less than 500,000 yen by 2005.