Nissan Says the Future is Now When it Comes to Self Driving Cars

Nissan Plans to Have Autonomous Vehicles on Road by 2020

Automaker has been working to develop this technology alongside teams from MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo.

Nissan made several statements about the future of the autonomous car on their blog recently, including the company’s plans to have commercially viable autonomous drive vehicles on the road by 2020.

“An autonomous car was once the epitome of a ‘future’ car, something seen only in science fiction – but now Nissan has achieved the technological advancements necessary to begin to make this fiction a reality.

Nissan has been working to develop this technology alongside teams from some of the world’s top universities, including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. The combined research time equals 80 years of research and development, the kind of effort it takes to put Nissan at the forefront of this important development.”

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