Nissan PROPILOT paves the way for the autonomous technology
After promising to bring the self-driving cars on the market by 2020, Nissan is now authorized to test its autonomous vehicles on public roads in Japan.
The Japanese government issued its first license for a self-driving car in Nissan, and the car has the license plate 20 20 to mark the year the company hopes to sell these vehicles to customers.
While the Nissan Leaf electric changed everything has a number of independent features found on other cars - like centering the automatic route and adaptive cruise control - the car also offers the ability to output highways automatically change track, catch slow or stationary vehicles and stop at red lights without driver intervention.
Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn said this is an ordinary license plate for an extraordinary road vehicle testing underlying technologies is essential to maintaining our leadership position and we are grateful to the Government of Japan for its support.
The Japanese company said in late August it plans to sell fully autonomous cars to the public by 2020, by which the owner can sit in the driver's seat, fold your arms, legs crossed and background the car will take you where you want to go, Executive Vice President Andy Palmer said.
While an ambitious goal, Nissan has proven to bring advanced technology to its road cars, after predicting in 2007 that an electric car would be commercially available by 2010, and after realizing this, Nissan Leaf is the best-selling all-electric car in the world.
Mitsuhiko Yamashita, executive vice president for research and development, Nissan has said the implementation of the autonomous driving system is one of our biggest goals, because zero fatalities stands with zero emissions as a major objective RD Through the public road tests of Nissan, we further develop the safety, efficiency and reliability of our technology.
But the company is not alone, and Japan is not the only nation to have allowed the use of its autonomous cars on public roads In July, the Department of Transportation announced it would begin testing driverless cars on the roads UK before the end of 2013 within the framework of action for roads, a new government plan to improve the quality and safety of British roads.
Test the UK will be limited to quiet rural roads, starting and cars require a passenger sitting in the driver's seat and can take control in case of problems.
Tesla electric car manufacturer is also working on self-driving cars with CEO Elon Musk indicating the company will produce a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 time over the next three years.
In February this year, an Oxford University research team has successfully demonstrated its own self-driving car, based on the electric Nissan leaf By using cameras and lasers to read the road and around the car, the vehicle is able to act accordingly without breaking, although it can not yet be legally driven on public roads.
Meanwhile, Google has already clocked up 30,000 miles testing its own self-driving cars on public roads in California, where these cars were made legal Google co-founder Sergey Brin last year said recently these vehicles have the potential to prevent accidents, we can save lives, create jobs and reduce congestion I think self-driving cars will be much safer than cars initiated by man.
This article was published September 27, 2013.
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