Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 27, 2013 @07:43AM from the as-long-as-you-don't-program-it-to-run-over-mimes dept.

Daniel_Stuckey writes "The current test vehicle uses what Nissan calls its 'Advanced Driver Assist System,' which isn't fully autonomous, but rather can be thought of as a really advanced cruise control system. According to the company, the system can keep a car in its own lane, while automatically changing lanes to pass slower vehicles or prepare to exit a freeway, which it can also do automatically. Along with that, the car automatically slows for congestion, and — most impressively in my opinion — can automatically stop at red lights. In other words, the car isn't fully automatic in that you can't simply type in a destination and have it do all the work, but the bulk of driving load is taken care of. Curiously, Nissan's goal appears to be to take sloppy human drivers out of the equation to eliminate road fatalities."

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Curiously? by Antipater · 2013-09-27 07:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Curiously, Nissan's goal appears to be to take sloppy human drivers out of the equation to eliminate road fatalities."
"We want fewer people to die" is a curious position to take?

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1. Re:Curiously? by BreakBad · 2013-09-27 08:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They sure do like to vote though.
2. Re:Curiously? by EnsilZah · 2013-09-27 08:38 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  What's curious is the fact that this line has nothing to do with the car in the article and actually refers to Nissan's plan to build an army of ninja robots who would take sloppy human drivers out of the equation to eliminate road fatalities.
3. Re:Curiously? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-27 10:57 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  1999 called, they want their problems back.