Nissan announces progress in automated driving
The vehicles are therefore similarly equipped to the Nissan Leafs, with which Nissan trialled automated driving last year. The number of cameras and LiDAR sensors was the same in the Leafs, but the Leafs used ten instead of nine radars.
The most important progress that Nissan has made with the new vehicles centres on the Serena: For the first time in Japan, a test vehicle has driven on a public road in a complex urban environment without a driver in the car.
Nissan has long been working on offering autonomous driving services with its proprietary technology. It should be ready soon, as Nissan is currently planning service demonstration tests with around 20 vehicles in Yokohama for the 2025 to 2026 financial years and is building an operational framework and service ecosystem together with stakeholders. Based on the test results, Nissan plans to offer autonomous driving mobility services with remote monitoring on a regular basis for the first time in the fiscal year 2027 in cooperation with municipalities and transport companies.
Nissan is collaborating on autonomous driving with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, other ministries; and the City of Yokohama. The ministries will also promote initiatives to create new autonomous mobility services through their Level 4 Mobility Acceleration Committee.
Nissan is therefore maximising its efforts to establish and verify the safety of autonomous driving technology tailored to different traffic conditions worldwide. To this end, the company is utilising findings and technologies from research in Japan, research in Silicon Valley by the Nissan Advanced Technology Center and participation in the UK evolvAD project.
Japan considers the idea of autonomous driving as a blessing for the ageing population. Google’s sister company, Waymo, is therefore already planning a test run of its autonomous vehicles in Japan.
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