Honda receives world-first approval to sell its Level 3 self-driving Legend vehicle in Japan in 2021

Honda has announced it will be the first automaker to mass-produce Level 3 autonomous cars, starting next year. The company said a version of the Honda Legend luxury sedan with'newly approved automated driving equipment' would be available before the end of March 2021. There are six levels of autonomous vehicles - Level 3 cars have environmental awareness capable of, say, passing a slow-moving car. But Honda's system will require a human driver to be alert enough to take the wheel at a moment's notice. On Wednesday, the Japanese government certified Honda's autonomous'Traffic Jam Pilot' driving technology to take the wheel in certain situations, like on congested highways.