# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第十四条の三 (Article 14-3)

- Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号
- English title "Road Traffic Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第十四条の三 (Article 14-3)（遠隔操作型小型車の遠隔操作を行う者の義務） — address `art-14-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-14-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-14-3
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### 第十四条の三（遠隔操作型小型車の遠隔操作を行う者の義務） — Obligations of a Person Who Performs Remote Operation of a Remotely Operated Small Vehicle
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-14-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-14-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-14-3</sup>

**第一項**  遠隔操作型小型車（道路を通行しているものに限る。）の遠隔操作を行う者は、当該遠隔操作型小型車について遠隔操作のための装置を確実に操作し、かつ、道路、交通及び当該遠隔操作型小型車の状況に応じ、他人に危害を及ぼさないような速度と方法で通行させなければならない。
<sup>art-14-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-14-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-14-3/par-1</sup>
A person who performs remote operation of a remotely operated small vehicle (limited to one traveling on a road) must reliably operate the device for remote operation with respect to that remotely operated small vehicle, and must cause it to travel at a speed and in a manner that will not cause harm to others, in accordance with the conditions of the road, traffic, and that remotely operated small vehicle.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路交通法 第十五条第一項（通行方法の指示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-15/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-002, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
