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Nissan and NASA Extend Collaboration to Advance Driving Systems in Seattle, Worldwide
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(Posted on Jan 11, 2018 at 03:03PM by Billy Kirk)

Yesterday at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nissan and NASA Ames Research Center announced the extension and expansion of their collaborative effort to advance autonomous driving services worldwide. The refreshed initiative will pull upon previous work to lead the companies into 2019.

The five-year R&D partnership has seen the two corporations team up to enhance shared technology. It birthed Nissan Seamless Autonomous Mobility (SAM), a platform for vehicle fleet management that was introduced at CES 2017 and has its origins in NASA research. With this latest phase official and announced, SAM is set to help organize self-driving transportation services ahead of public implementation testing.

On a broader scale, the extended collaboration will evolve the car industry and Nissan Intelligent Mobility, including its â€œDriveâ€ and â€œPowerâ€ technologies. These include the automakerâ€™s ProPILOT autonomous system and all-electric vehicles such as the upcoming 2018 LEAF. The former includes automatic lane centering as well as the ePedal, which enables operators to accelerate, stop, and go using only one input. The latter is the companyâ€™s zero-emissions EV boasting a new 150-mile range.

â€¨â€¨Ring us up at Kirkland Nissan in Seattle to hear more on this exciting partnership!