Wednesday, August 28, 2013

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Nissan promises autonomous vehicles by 2020

Nissan promises autonomous vehicles by 2020



Nissan is reported to be working on a new version of the car to be moved without any help from the driver. Standalone machine should appear in the commercial market around 2020. Moreover, Nissan does not plan to restrict only one model, the company plans to implement technologies Autonomous Drive in several different cars. The company said that they are working with several different research institutions on the concept of autonomous vehicles, including from Stanford University in Berkeley, with experts from Oxford, with Korean engineers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and a number of major institutions in Japan. "In 2007, I dreamed that by 2010, Nissan launched the car with no harmful emissions. Today Nissan Leaf - it's the best-selling electric car stories. Now I am pleased to introduce a new breakthrough technology Autonomous Drive, which will be ready by 2020, "- said the head of Carlos Niassan Gozn. Experts say that over the past few years, Nissan and its luxury division Infiniti has become one of the leaders in the drive direction -assist, in which the solutions are created to help the driver while driving. These systems are equipped with 360-degree cameras, radar, laser range finders and other products, many of which are already in the commercial market. The company said that the next step - the union of all these systems together and develop "command center" for them. The company said that a working version of the center will be available next year in Japan, Nissan will begin to use it as a foundation to build a future commercial system.
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