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。過去には商用車（小型トラック～大型トラック／大型観光バスまで）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2007年より、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、2015年より警視庁の安全運転管理者／副安全運転管理者の法定講習における講師を拝命。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。2018年は山形県公安委員会からの要請を受け、法定講習の講師を拝命。YouTubeチャンネル「西村直人の乗り物見聞録」では、工業製品としての成り立ちと、構成する要素技術を重要視していることから、開発者へのインタビューに基づいた動画レポート（試乗シーンを含む）を心掛けている。

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.

He is also actively involved in public road testing of large trucks, buses, and trailers, and has covered many topics related to logistics and the environment, such as hybrid route buses and hybrid trains. In the past, he was also involved in the development of commercial vehicles (from small trucks to large trucks and large tourist buses).

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.

Since 2007, he has been continuously appointed as a lecturer at training sessions (public institutions, educational institutions, and private companies) on autonomous driving and advanced safety technology, and since 2015, he has been appointed as a lecturer in the statutory training for safe driving managers and deputy safe driving managers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

In February 2017, he published a book on autonomous driving and artificial intelligence, “Will artificial intelligence drive cars in 2020?” (Impress Publishing). In 2018, he was appointed as a lecturer for the statutory training at the request of the Yamagata Prefectural Public Safety Commission.

On his YouTube channel “Naoto Nishimura’s Vehicle Records,” he places importance on the origins of industrial products and the component technologies that make them up, and strives to provide video reports (including test drive scenes) based on interviews with developers.