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Renault-Nissan Alliance plan to sell a fully autonomous vehicle by 2020| #CES2016
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year has seen plenty of news from large automakers who are on a mission to provide autonomous vehicles to consumers in the near future.
The next group to join the fray is the alliance between France’s Groupe Renault and Japan’s Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. The Renault-Nissan Alliance stated that over the next five years they would launch 10 cars with semi-autonomous or fully autonomous capability.
The Renault-Nissan Alliance has some firm dates in place of when its autonomous vehicles will make an appearance. This year they plan to have cars that are able to drive in one lane. While the cars will not be able to change lanes, they will be able to stop, accelerate and steer autonomously. By 2018, the group will have cars that can handle autonomous driving on highways while the Renault-Nissan Alliance plan to sell a fully autonomous car by 2020, by which time the technology would have advanced enough to handle heavy urban traffic and city intersections without the driver being involved.
The Renault-Nissan Alliance’s cars will be mass-market cars and would come with an affordable price tag, according to the group. The group said the cars would be available in the U.S., Europe, Japan and China.
Competition in the race to implement autonomous driving is increasing rapidly and a variety of automakers made their intentions clear at this year’s CES.
BMW AG revealed its concept car the i Vision Future Interaction, which features a self-driving mode. Audi AG revealed piloted driving functionality in its Audi e-tron quattro concept. Volvo Car Corp. will be the first automaker to ship Nvidia’s ‘supercomputer’ the Drive PX2 in 100 upcoming autonomous test cars. Audi, BMW, Mercedez-Benz and Daimler are currently carrying out tests for the technology.
Ford Motor Co plan to triple the number of autonomous cars, up to 30, that it will be testing on Michigan, Arizona and California roads in 2016. While Toyota Motor Corp. announced at CES that it was increasing its Toyota Research Institute efforts, with the aim of developing an artificial intelligence so that cars can communicate with each other.
Image via Renault-Nissan Alliance
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