西村 直人 (交通コメンテーター )

プロフィール：1972年１月　東京生まれ。専門分野はパーソナルモビリティだが、広い視野をもつためにWRカーやF１、そして２輪界のF１と言われるMotoGPマシンでのサーキット走行をこなしつつ、４＆２輪の草レースにも精力的に参戦中。また、大型トラックやバス、トレーラーの公道試乗も積極的に行い、ハイブリッド路線バスやハイブリッド電車など、物流や環境に関する取材を多数担当。過去には大型商用車の開発業務も行った。国土交通省「スマートウェイ検討委員会」、警察庁「UTMS懇談会」に出席したほか、東京都交通局のバスモニター役も務めた。また昨今では、自律自動運転や先進安全技術の研修会（公的機関／教育機関／民間企業）における講師役を継続的に拝命しつつ、2017年２月には自律自動運転と人工知能にまつわる書籍「2020年、人工知能は車を運転するのか」（インプレス刊）を上梓した。2020年度は警視庁の副安全運転管理者法定講習における講師を拝命。YouTubeチャンネル「西村直人の乗り物見聞録」では、試乗レポート／開発者インタビューを手掛ける。

PROFILE : Born on January, 1972 in Tokyo.
My field of expertise is Personal Mobility device.
To broaden my view of the automotive world, I’m challenging various test-drive from commercial vehicles to racing machines such as WR-car, F1-car, MotoGP, and so on.
I also enjoy an endurance racing and a motorcycle racing as a racer.
Moreover, I’m actively engage in a test-drive of a heavy-duty truck and a bus on a public road.
I have plenty of experience with coverage of the hybrid vehicles such as a route bus and a hybrid-train related to logistics and environment.
I attended “Smart Way Promotion Conference” sponsored by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the “UTMS (Universal Traffic Management Association) Conference” sponsored by the National Police Agency, and also served as a bus driver. I also served as a consumer panelist of the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation.

In recent times, I have been continuously in charge of lecturers at training sessions such as automated driving and advanced safety technology hosted by Public institution/Educational institution/Private enterprise.

I published my book for pursuing the latest trend of the autonomous driving in 2017.
Title is “2020, Do Artificial Intelligence drive the car? -Present, Past, Future of autonomous driving-“, published by Impress Corporation.

From 2020, I was appointed as a lecturer of the deputy safe driving manager designated course of the Metropolitan Police Department.

You can see my YouTube channel “Nishimura Naoto’s Vehicle Observations”.
I broadcast test drive reports and developer interviews.