Future Nissan Leaf owners will be able to mostly skip one of the most unpleasant parts of driving: navigating stop-and-go highway traffic.
Nissan announced on Thursday that the next-generation Leaf will come with the automaker's ProPilot Assist feature, which incorporates some of the self-driving technology to which Tesla owners have already grown accustomed. In the Leaf, ProPilot will control acceleration, braking, and steering while the car is driving in a single lane on the highway.
The system can sense if there's a curve in the road ahead or the vehicle in front slows down, and it will adjust speed and steering accordingly. ProPilot is not fully autonomous, however. Nissan is marketing it as a driver-assistance technology, so don't expect it to stay in control if you encounter faded road markings or if the driver in front of you slams on his or her brakes.
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In several years, however, ProPilot will gain increasing levels of autonomy, Nissan said. Eventually, it will even be able to navigate city intersections on its own.
Nissan announced its self-driving car plans back in 2013, promising cars equipped with autonomous driving capabilities by 2020. Since then, tech companies have largely stolen the self-driving car limelight, with Google testing its cars extensively on public roads and Uber offering rides in computer-driven cars in Pittsburgh and Arizona.
Then there is Tesla, a tech company-automaker hybrid, which already offers technology similar to ProPilot in its luxury Model X and Model S vehicles. Tesla Autopilot includes traffic-aware cruise control, a forward collision warning system, and automatic steering at low speeds. A fatal crash last year of a Tesla with the Autopilot activated raised concerns about its safety, but the National Transportation Safety Board placed most of the blame for the accident on the driver.
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