Japan automakers to fit new models with partial, conditional autopilot features

Japan automakers to fit new models with partial, conditional autopilot features

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20221205_03/

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  1. Nissan already offers that with their ProPilot system. My Nissan Sakura has it. I use it when I’m on the expressway but it feels a bit creepy just sitting there and letting the car steer itself.

  2. >Japanese automakers are accelerating moves to equip their new models with technologies emerging from their efforts to develop fully self-driving vehicles.

    >Driving automation has six levels from zero to 5. The government seeks to put Level 4 mobility services into practical use by around 2025. Level 4 vehicles automatically perform all driving tasks under specific circumstances.

    >Honda Motor has already fitted some of its luxury cars with Level 3 features, which allow vehicles to automatically perform most driving tasks under certain conditions.

    >The company has so far limited the application of the technology to vehicles traveling on congested expressways at 50 kilometers per hour or less.

    >But it plans to raise the speed threshold to 120 kilometers per hour by the latter half of the 2020s.

    >Honda is also seeking to equip almost all of its new models with Level 2 technology by 2030. It partially allows vehicles to automatically steer, accelerate and brake under certain conditions.

    >Nissan Motor is trying to mount the Level 2 steering technology to some of its minivans to be launched in the spring.

    >Senior Honda official Tamagawa Yutaka said his firm wants to provide safe and reliable mobility while devising ways to evolve advanced technologies and increase their prevalence in society.

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