Nissan Motor Co., through its North Americanbased organization, and NASA today announced the formation of a fiveyear research and development partnership to advance autonomous vehicle systems and prepare for commercial application of the technology.
Researchers from Nissan's U.S. Silicon Valley Research Center and NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., will focus on autonomous drive systems, humanmachine interface solutions, networkenabled applications, and software analysis and verification, all involving sophisticated hardware and software used in road and space applications.
Researchers from the two organizations will test a fleet of zeroemission autonomous vehicles at Ames to demonstrate proofofconcept remote operation of autonomous vehicles for the transport of materials, goods, payloads and people. For NASA, these tests parallel the way it operates planetary rovers from a mission control center.
The first vehicle of that fleet should be testing at the facility by the end of 2015.
"The work of NASA and Nissan with one directed to space and the other directed to earth, is connected by similar challenges," said Carlos Ghosn, president and CEO of Nissan Motor Co.
"The partnership will accelerate Nissan's development of safe, secure and reliable autonomous drive technology that we will progressively introduce to consumers beginning in 2016 up to 2020."
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