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Yokosuka, Japan - Nissan Motor Co tests self-driving cars at one of its plants in Japan that can tow vehicles on a trailer to the dock for loading onto transport ships.
The Japanese automaker believes that the technology will in the long run, reduce costs and boost efficiency tests can also add knowledge to take the lead on autonomous public road.
Nissan Executive Haruhiko Yoshimura said the automaker hoped to use technology in Oppama Plant in 2019, and factories overseas in the future.
At an event Monday a car without a sheet inside sped along the road, pulling a trailer with three other Leafs on it properly stopped for other vehicles, then veered into a parking lot.
But a vehicle has encountered difficulties, refused to move and was not able to take part in the demonstration.
Kazuhiro Doi, a vice president of Nissan, acknowledged these shortcomings have shown a unique challenge to technology.
If there are pilots, they can take action, he said mechanical operations are all there in a car without a driver.
Nissan, which makes the subcompact Mars, Infiniti luxury models and the electric car Leaf, now has two cars of self-driving leaves.
For all vehicles produced at the Oppama plant in tow so driverless, these five vehicles are needed, according to Nissan.
People still had to enter each of the towed vehicles to drive to the dock itself, but Nissan hopes that the self-driving technology advances the cars will behave in ships, the board of their own.
cars are not allowed on Driverless regular public roads in Japan, although all major automakers are working on this technological Driverless driving is legal in private institutions like Nissan's.
In commercial products available in Japan, vehicles with autonomous driving variant, can stop on their own before an accident or remain within the path of their own to highway driving, although all must have drivers.
Nissan, allied with Renault SA of France, has conducted tests with tow since last year driverless.
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