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Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-waiting-on-self-flying-cars dept.

Lucas123 writes "Nissan today said it will begin demonstrating autonomous vehicle technology on its all-electric Leaf this year, and plans to begin selling multiple models of self-driving cars by 2020. Nissan said it's already building an autonomous drive proving ground in Japan. Its goal is availability across the model range within two vehicle generations. The car company, which is among several others and Google in developing autonomous driving tech, is currently working with top universities, including MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford and The University of Tokyo, to develop its self-drive technology."

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  1. What I don't get is by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why wouldn't Uber buy their fleet of cars from Nissan, instead of from Google?

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  2. Re:Good by ahem · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heck, lower the sidewalks to street level and when nobody is on them, use them as another place to drive!

    It appears that you haven't been to Italy, have you.

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  3. Sex. by khasim · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even if they get a commercially viable product on the road in 2020, it'll be at least a generation of these things being on the roads before people become comfortable enough with the technology to trust their lives to it en mass.

    Once people figure out that you can have sex in the car on the way to work only the lonely will still be driving.