Renault-Nissan Gives Details on Autonomous Vehicle Plan
08 January 2016 - 7:40AM
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The Renault-Nissan Alliance said it would put out a combined 10
vehicles over the next five years with semiautonomous or fully
autonomous capability, cementing the group's efforts to be among
the leaders in commercializing the technology.
The company made the announcement at an event in Sunnyvale,
Calif., where Nissan Motor Co. has a research center and was giving
test rides in its autonomous Nissan Leaf.
The alliance of France's Renault SA and Japan's Nissan, led by
co-Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn, has been more definitive than
other auto makers about when it will sell an autonomous car to the
public. In October, Mr. Ghosn said the group will sell a fully
autonomous car by 2020. By 2018, it plans to put out cars that can
drive autonomously on highways, and this year cars that can drive
in one lane, handling stopping, accelerating and steering, but no
lane changes.
The industry is racing to implement autonomous vehicle
technology, demonstrated by events at the Consumer Electronics Show
this week in Las Vegas, where car makers such as Toyota Motor
Corp., Ford Motor Co., Audi AG and Volvo Car Corp. used the
gathering to make announcements about their plans to take the
steering wheel out of the hands of drivers.
Nissan-Renault also announced the hiring of Ogi Redzic, the
former senior vice president of mapping company Nokia Here, to run
its connected car and autonomous vehicle programs. The mapping
company, which was recently acquired by a consortium of BMW AG,
Daimler AG and Volkswagen AG, is considered a vital provider of
high-definition maps usable for autonomous vehicles.
Write to Mike Ramsey at michael.ramsey@wsj.com
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