Autonomous Nissan’s Plan: New Cars With Self-Driving Tech by 2020

Very few cars under $ 30,000 have a complete automatic driver assist, and even fewer offer of semi-autonomous driving. Now the business partners Nissan and Renault said they would offer more than 10 cars with various features autonomous within the next four years, especially the "mainstream, mass-market cars at affordable prices."

2020 years is a big problem for Nissan, which has started since 2013, which will market the first fully autonomous car at that time. That is unlikely to happen, what with regulators, insurance companies, and industrial quiet recognition that radar, laser, ultrasound, and visual camera that is not even close to being fail-safe. But improvements are coming faster than the new iPhone, and Nissan and Renault have updated their plans.

For one, they have hired former Nokia HERE executive Ogi Redzic, who helped lead the high-definition mapping software company that claims accuracy paths to 10 cm and are used in a number of prototypes of autonomous, to head up anything digital, connected, mobile, and application -ified the Franco-Japanese alliance. Which would include making a giant company with $ 5000000000 R & D budget to act with "startup mindset," said the company's key executives who justify employ expensive technology such as Redzic.

This year, Nissan and Renault said they will launch the car with a semi-autonomous capability on the highway, including stop-and-go driving. In 2018, the same features can automatically change lanes and turn to avoid road hazards. Then, to really begin the next decade, their car will navigate city traffic and intersections without driver input.

Whether or not Versa Note driver will see this technology together with Maxima and Infiniti driver is another. The word "affordable" is relative adjective, and so far, Honda has been beaten to the punch by Nissan semi-autonomous control available on the base Accord LX, which stickers for less than $ 25,000.

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