‘Piloted Drive’ Nissan Qashqai coming next year
‘Piloted Drive’ Nissan Qashqai will be the Nissan’s first vehicle in Europe to feature autonomous ‘Piloted Drive’ technology when it rolls off the line next year.
Qashqai became the fastest ever UK-built vehicle to smash the half million production mark. Since production began in 2014, a second generation Qashqai has rolled of the line every 62 seconds at Nissan’s record-breaking Sunderland Plant.
The NissanQashqai will be equipped with ‘Piloted Drive 1.0′ a feature that allows cars to drive autonomously and safely in a single lane in heavy traffic conditions on highways. This is part of three step planof Nissan-Renault alliancewhere, by 2020 they plan to put 10 autonomous models on the road. In 2018, Renault-Nissan will launch vehicles with “multiple-lane control,” which can autonomously negotiate hazards and change lanes during highway driving. And 2020 will see the launch of “intersection autonomy,” which can navigate city intersections and heavy urban traffic without driver intervention.
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Making the announcement at the Geneva Motor Show, Paul Willcox, Chairman, Nissan Europe said: “The Nissan Qashqai has always been a trailblazer in the market so it’s fitting that customers will get to experience the future of mobility in our award-winning crossover as early as 2017.
“It’s a car people love. It’s a car people trust. It pioneered the crossover boom, and now it will spearhead Nissan’s move towards launching a range of vehicles with autonomous drive capabilities from 2017. Yet again, we are taking technology normally found in premium cars and making it accessible to millions of motorists.”
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“The introduction of Piloted Drive technologies will be an evolution not a revolution as the building blocks for this are already in place in many of our cars today through our Safety Shield Technology,” added Willcox. “With the driver in control, we want to remove the pain-points of being behind the wheel, like navigating heavy traffic, to put the excitement back into driving.”
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