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TOKYO - Japan's major automakers, known for their penchant for automation - think using the robot Honda Asimo - finally are ready to make a big push in the self-driving cars.
After deliberating for years about how best to bring the technology to market, Honda, Nissan and Toyota have used the Tokyo Motor Show last week the scene to determine the next steps Each company said it plans to sell cars by 2020, which will allow drivers to give up the wheel in traffic and highway cruising.
Nissan Motor Co. CEO Carlos Ghosn, fervent defender of Japanese industry of automated driving, said Nissan plans to use the same pioneering spirit that led to playing on the Nissan Leaf and turn it into the most sold electric car Nissan If the world doesn t, he says, challengers.
High-tech companies will take as much space as we are ready to give up, Ghosn told Automotive News in a reference to Apple, Google and Uber, who all gathered considerable teams of experts on self-driving cars If we leave open ground, if we are slow in developing autonomous cars, neglecting connected cars, well, guess what, we'll helpers more competition from outside the industry.
Last week in Tokyo, Nissan unveiled the concept IDS, an elegant sedan teasing a new generation electric vehicle Leaf full sight of autonomous systems.
The concept has a group of automated folding instruments designed to lead If the driver switches to autopilot, steering wheel ranks and rotates forwards cluster to place a giant touch screen where the wheel was.
IDS was one of an assortment of wild, self-driving concepts spread in the showroom Among them Wander Honda stand, which uses an omnidirectional wheel motor system to transport two passengers in a gondola bell shaped like a phone booth.
One reason for a new audacity of Japan's government, which has been quicker than others to invest in infrastructure to vehicle communication networks that will help automated vehicles to know about lane closures, traffic jams and even other vehicles or pedestrians lurking in the blind spots.
The date 2020 is significant is not only the same as Google's goal to market self-driving cars, but also the year of Tokyo will host the Summer Olympics, the leaders here see as a chance highlight a resurgence of Japanese technology Japanese media are obsessed about the idea of traveling athletes to sports sites in the self-driving cars.
The Japanese government wants to be No. 1, Fumihiko Ike, President of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, told reporters that the reason why they gave us a 2020 target to showcase this technology.
Until recently, Honda and Toyota have been silent on the automated technology, such as luxury brands such as Audi, Mercedes-Benz and Tesla openly tested prototypes on public roads and suggested that customers may soon be able to ride from point A to point B without touching the wheel.
And as they embraced the promise of last week automated driving, they expressed caution about some of the most futuristic transportation visions offered by companies such as Google and Mercedes-Benz German carmaker showed a concept vehicle diamond-shaped called Tokyo Vision that would allow passengers to face another into the seats loungelike while the car handles driving.
Honda Motor Co wants to provide automated driving on highway by 2020, but we always try to think about what kind of features it would be something original Honda CEO Takahiro Hachigo said here.
Toyota Motor Corp. hopes to deploy similar technology around 2020, but he sees the vision of Google podlike car without driving just as far from reality.
For this, the cars have changed, the infrastructure has to change, people need to accept the concept, and there should be new rules for such vehicles, said Mitsuhisa Kato, executive vice president of Toyota r d.
The Toyota system, Mobility Teammate help cars are based on the road, change lanes, pass other vehicles and take off ramps themselves, through sensors and high definition cards, but it needs the driver to control the first and last miles on local development of the streets.
This is based on aid or mutual assistance between the vehicles and drivers, both having a hand on the same wheel, Kato said a way, we try to say Google is the world of reality in which we still live.
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