Nissan Leaf autonomous prototype begins road tests

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Debuting on Japanese roads is the self-driving Nissan Leaf. The brand is officially bringing its autonomous-driving prototype, which features the Piloted Drive 1.0 out onto highways and city/urban roads. Nissan says that aside from Japan, the brand aims to put the the system to test overseas, in the near future.

Testing will be carried out in actual traffic conditions, so that the brand can further enhance its overall “Nissan Intelligent Driving” technology for public use. The road-going Leaf prototype features millimetre wave radar, laser scanners, cameras as well as high-speed computer chips and a Human Machine Interface (HMI).

Senior vice president of Nissan, Takao Asami said, “we at Nissan are setting clear goals and preparing for the implementation of piloted drive. The prototype that we’re introducing here today is proof of how close we are towards the realisation of this goal. Nissan aspires for a safe and trouble-free motoring future, and we plan on leading the industry in the implementation of piloted drive.”

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Various innovative self-driving features are expected to be rolled out in stages. Stage one will see Piloted Drive 1.0 introduced in Japan by end 2016. Multiple lane piloted drive will follow in 2018 – this, allows for vehicles to change lanes on highways. By 2020, a more complete version of its autonomous tech will debut, where vehicles will be able to successfully manage city and urban roads, including intersections, on its own.

All three technologies, when combined, will subsequently form the greater Nissan Intelligent Driving technology. The Nissan IDS Concept, previewed at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show, also gave us a glimpse of what Nissan’s mission for the future could materialise into.

Also, Nissan is upholding two corporate visions as its guiding path to its future goal. The first being “Zero Emission” which realises the company’s goal to do away with CO2 emission from Nissan vehicles. The second, “Zero Fatality” aims to put an end to traffic fatalities.


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Graham Chin

Having spent a number of years as a journalist for a local paper, a marketing executive for a popular German automotive brand and a copywriter, Graham, a true-blue Sarawakian, knew he had to take the leap back into the motoring scene - and so he did. To him, nothing’s better than cruising for hours along a scenic route, in a car that’s designed and built for that purpose.

 

Comments

  • areos on Nov 02, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    the car should be tested in Malaysian roads…see whether it manage to avoid collision with cows, pigs or monkeys crossing hiways and roads.

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    • alldisc on Nov 02, 2015 at 10:06 pm

      on the other hand, i am hoping our govt will enforce full autonomous cars in 6-8 years time and get rid of those silly, stupid, arrogant and ridiculous drivers out of the road.
      poor lane control, no signal, sudden lane change, too slow or too fast, tailgating, misuse of fog lamps or improper HID headlamps, no sense of direction, cutting lanes, using emergency lanes… the list goes on.

      i just hope that by 2020, they will all become something of the past.

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    • trollmaster3000 on Nov 02, 2015 at 11:35 pm

      don’t forget the mat rempits as well.. they can come out of nowhere..

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  • areos on Nov 02, 2015 at 7:33 pm

    on malaysian roads..sorry

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    • armandd on Nov 02, 2015 at 10:50 pm

      Yeah, if the ‘intelligent’ car faces a road bully with a hairy chest it might get panic and hit other cars and pedestrians.

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  • is it possible to avoid Road Bully from stopping us.

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  • I got more confidence in our Iriz EV than this jamban Leaf

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  • Nissan on Nov 03, 2015 at 8:45 am

    Please design cut q technique & make it mandatory when u plan to introduce in najis_land

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  • jolly_idiot (Member) on Nov 03, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    Somehow I don’t support this autonomous driving. It defeat the purpose of driving pleasure and it will just make human even more dumb.

    Look at Wall-E movie? Human are slave to machines/computer.

    I don’t hope to see our day comes as Terminator with Judgement day.

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