I’m so excited about this!!! I'm thinking this could represent
the greatest breakthrough toward independence for so many people with
disabilities. Nissan is not the only
player in the game, other co.’s are working on this too…so exciting!
Nissan
shifts self-driving car R&D to Silicon Valley
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Nissan has opened a new
advanced research center in Sunnyvale, California that will specialize in
self-driving and connected cars. Speaking
to Bloomberg,
the company's senior vice president for North American R&D Carla Bailo said
that the facility will have over 60 engineers and technicians in the next three
years, and that the move from Japan to Silicon Valley is about shifting
Nissan's work "to the heart of the industry." The company opened a
Mountain View research office in 2011, but the new center indicates that the
company plans to make significant investments in automated vehicle technology.
"WE’RE GOING TO FOCUS ON THIS TECHNOLOGY REALLY IN THE HEART OF WHERE IT LIES TODAY."
Other car companies have
already set up base in the Valley: Toyota and Volkswagen both work on
infotainment systems in the region, and of course Google's self-driving car
initiative is minutes away in Mountain View. Nissan also plans to tap the
resources of Stanford University's automotive labs as well as the University of
California's Berkeley and Davis campuses. According to Bailo, the company
expects work from the new research center to show up in products within ten
years.
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