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Nissan"s autonomous car drive has gained significant momentum at the CES show in Las Vegas. The Japanese carmaker has put a timeline to its plans, and confirmed the MkII Leaf due in the next year or two will get semi-autonomous functionality as standard.It has also collaborated with Nasa to help develop something called SAM (Seamless Autonomous Mobility) that means proper self-driving vehicles taxis and vans with no drivers in them at all won"t be completely stranded when an accident or construction work ahead of them blocks the road.The idea is that actual humans will monitor the vehicles" progress the head of a fleet of autonomous cabs, for example and if a car gets confused by a road layout, it"ll pause, send its human an alert, and they"ll use its cameras and location to guide it around obstacles and back on track.You might ponder the point of a self-driven car if it can"t entirely drive itself. Nissan"s CEO Carlos Ghosn is fairly bullish about the fact that it"s a long time before our road networks will consist purely of driverless cars."No matter how much artificial intelligence or algorithms come along, there"ll always be a case where the car gets stuck and needs human intervention," he says. "In 15 to 20 years maybe we"ll overcome it, but I doubt it. Humans know how to overcome rules but still respect them."
Date written: 6 Jan 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6294
Nissan"s autonomous car drive has gained significant momentum at the CES show in Las Vegas. The Japanese carmaker has put a timeline to its plans, and confirmed the MkII Leaf due in the next year or two will get semi-autonomous functionality as standard.It has also collaborated with Nasa to help develop something called SAM (Seamless Autonomous Mobility) that means proper self-driving vehicles taxis and vans with no drivers in them at all won"t be completely stranded when an accident or construction work ahead of them blocks the road.The idea is that actual humans will monitor the vehicles" progress the head of a fleet of autonomous cabs, for example and if a car gets confused by a road layout, it"ll pause, send its human an alert, and they"ll use its cameras and location to guide it around obstacles and back on track.You might ponder the point of a self-driven car if it can"t entirely drive itself. Nissan"s CEO Carlos Ghosn is fairly bullish about the fact that it"s a long time before our road networks will consist purely of driverless cars."No matter how much artificial intelligence or algorithms come along, there"ll always be a case where the car gets stuck and needs human intervention," he says. "In 15 to 20 years maybe we"ll overcome it, but I doubt it. Humans know how to overcome rules but still respect them."
Date written: 6 Jan 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6294
