The French-Japanese automaker Renault Nissan has long been seriously developing its own autopilot system, testing prototypes on the streets of cities in Japan and the US. It is planned that by 2018, the serial cars of the respective brands will learn to rebuild independently, and by 2020 they will have the ability to automatically move around in cities and crossroads. Until 2020, the automaker expects to produce at least 10 models with driver assistance systems at various levels.
The agency Bloomberg explains that the decision to allocate the elements of the autopilot model of the mass price segment already justifies itself in terms of growth in sales. For example, the functions of automatic car holding in the lane and automatic braking allowed to raise the demand for the minivan Nissan Serena by 67%, and more than 60% of potential buyers are willing to pay extra for the system of assistance to the ProPilot driver.
The following models that will receive similar functions are the crossovers X-Trail and Qashqai, as well as the electric car Leaf. It is noteworthy that the driver assistance system on the Nissan Serena model uses a monocamera and relies on pattern recognition. The system allows the car to move in a stream along one lane without driver intervention, but does not allow it to release the rudder or to remove the feet from the pedals for a period longer than a few seconds.