Sunday, January 18, 2015

NASA teams up with Nissan to develop self-driving cars

Researchers from Nissan's US Silicon Valley Research Center and NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California have formed a five-year research and development partnership to advance development of autonomous vehicle systems and their commercial applications.

The partnership will focus on autonomous drive systems, human-machine interface solutions, network-enabled applications, and software analysis and verification, all involving sophisticated hardware and software used in road and space applications.

Researchers from the two organisations will test a fleet of zero-emission autonomous vehicles at Ames to demonstrate proof-of-concept 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 this fleet will be testing at the facility by the end of 2015.

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