The nation's prime minister held a policy coordination meeting with various ministers today.<br />Key discussion topics include ways to promote autonomous vehicles and measures to tackle the fine dust problem.<br /> Yoon Jung-min has the highlights from that session. <br /> At a government policy coordination meeting on Thursday, Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon and ministers discussed ways to promote autonomous vehicles which are considered one of the most promising future industries for the country.<br /><br /> The government plans to change the definition of drivers and revise laws accordingly.<br />Until now, only humans could be considered drivers, but the revised law will also include an autonomous driving system as a driver.<br />The government will also readjust rules in self-driving situations and scrap regulations. This will allow autonomous vehicles to drive closer together, and drivers of such vehicles to use mobile phones.<br /><br /> "The regulation reform was introduced today to remove future obstacles ahead of time."<br /><br /> Another item on the agenda was combating fine dust.<br />One of the measures proposed was a policy to remove incentives given to low-emission diesel cars by 2030. <br />The government had previously cut parking fees and congestion tolls for diesel vehicles. The so-called "clean diesel policy" will be scrapped as diesel cars are considered a main cause of air pollution.<br /><br /> Meanwhile, the government said it will shut down more aged coal-fired power plants and work with neighboring countries such as China to tackle air pollution.<br />Yoon Jung-min, Arirang News. <br />
