Driverless Services in Japan and France

Continuing to gather information on the use and greater implications of driverless.  My experience is mostly in the supply chain space, but the changes this will produce will be very broad.  Consider too the required data generation and transmission involved, what else will ride on these new channels?

Waymo is developing driverless services with Renault and Nissan
The services will be designed to transport people and goods in France and Japan.

By Mariella Moon, @mariella_moon in Engadget
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Nissan Claims Updated Car is Highway Hands-Off

Quite a claim.   Not all the way to autonomous cars.  First of all the claim is for highway driving only.  And even there you wont be able to play cards with your passenger.   A driver facing camera will look for distractions, and I assume enforce your attention in some way.  Still an interesting step in an autonomous direction.  And once you had such a system working, you  have considerable data to tune and extend it further.

Nissan claims its upgraded ProPilot system enables hands-off highway driving  By Stephen Edelstein in Digitaltrends

Nissan is introducing a new version of its ProPilot Assist driver-assist system in Japan that marks a big step forward in automation. The current version of ProPilot Assist is basically adaptive cruise control with a lane-centering feature, but Nissan claims the new system — dubbed ProPilot 2.0 — allows for “hands-off” driving on highways.

ProPilot 2.0 is designed to work only on highways, similar to Tesla’s Autopilot and Cadillac’s Super Cruise systems. It has the capability to follow a route set in the car’s navigation system from on-ramp to off-ramp. Once the car reaches the off-ramp, the driver must retake full control. On the highway, though, Nissan claims drivers can take their hands off the wheel while the car cruises in a single lane. Drivers must still pay attention and be ready to retake the wheel at all times, Nissan noted. A driver-facing camera checks for signs of distraction. It’s a sensible precaution, given the antics some Tesla owners have gotten into with Autopilot. Systems like these may take some of the workload, but they do not allow cars to drive themselves. ... " 

Nissan to invite Google onto Car Dashboards

A step forward on automotive driver/occupant interaction.   The rolling channel.  Closer than this, I think.   How will driverless vehicles effect/change this?

Nissan will invite Google into its cars’ dashboards starting in 2021 By Ronan Glon in Digitaltrends

Nissan and its major partners, Renault and Mitsubishi, have turned to Google for help in developing a brand-new infotainment system. The yet-unnamed software will begin booting up in dashboards all around the world in 2021 and help the Alliance reach its goal of building more connected vehicles by 2022. …. "

Nissan Lab on the Future of Transportation

In Knowledge@Wharton.   A podcast and transcribed text.

How Nissan Is Preparing for a Future of Self-driving Cars
Nissan Future Lab's Megan Neese discusses a future of transportation that's autonomous, electrified and connected.

In a future where self-driving vehicles may be the norm, will fewer people want to buy a car? Japanese automaker Nissan is looking ahead to this and other scenarios in the future of transportation — and it is doing research on products to position itself well going forward.

Knowledge@Wharton caught up with Megan Neese, senior manager of the Nissan Future Lab, to talk about her group’s goals and projects. She also recently spoke at the ‘Digital Disruption and Empowered End-users’ conference hosted by Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management. ... "