New smart car feature alerts you if you leave something in the back seat

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It can be as simple (and stinky) as forgetting leftovers in the back seat, or as tragic and terrifying as leaving a pet or young child sitting in the back while a car heats up in the summer sun. That’s where Nissan’s “smart” alert system comes in.

Nissan’s rear door alert — or RDA — system was first introduced in the Nissan Pathfinder last year. The recently patented technology triggers the horn and a message display through door sensors alerting drivers to check the back seat after the car is parked if the back door was opened before the ride started. The tech was filed as an “activity monitoring apparatus.” Read more…

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Ford’s latest taxis use diesel and hybrid powertrains

The taxi of tomorrow might be dead but Ford today announced two new models that combine forward-looking technology with proven body styles. For the first time, Ford is offering a hybrid powertrain in a taxi model that is said to get a 40 mpg in the city. This news comes several weeks after Ford’s bombshell […]

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The race to build autonomous delivery robots rolls on

It’s been a busy year in delivery robot land. Starship Technologies sounded the starting gun to bring autonomous delivery vehicles to market with a $17.2 million round led by Daimler back in January 2017. Then in January this year the Mountain View, Calif.-based company Nuro, raised the curtain on its own vision for robo-delivery with a […]

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AI powers the future of your truck

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Smartphones, smart houses, smartwatches: our lives are driven by technology more than ever, but there’s still one area that could use a major update.

Driving.

Stepping into your car shouldn’t be like stepping into the past. Fortunately, we have good news: with Nissan’s 2018 lineup, the future of driving can be in your garage today. Powered by the most innovative available Nissan Intelligent Mobility technologies, this generation of smart cars offers a game-changing experience behind the wheel, seamlessly integrating available cutting-edge tech into the reliability and performance that drivers expect from Nissan. Read more…

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How your SUV’s future runs on AI

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Smartphones, smart houses, smartwatches: our lives are driven by technology more than ever, but there’s still one area that could use a major update.

Driving.

Stepping into your car shouldn’t be like stepping into the past. Fortunately, we have good news: with Nissan’s 2018 lineup, the future of driving can be in your garage today. Powered by the most innovative available Nissan Intelligent Mobility technologies, this generation of smart cars offers a game-changing experience behind the wheel, seamlessly integrating available cutting-edge tech into the reliability and performance that drivers expect from Nissan. Read more…

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How AI powers your car’s future

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Smartphones, smart houses, smartwatches: our lives are driven by technology more than ever, but there’s still one area that could use a major update.

Driving.

Stepping into your car shouldn’t be like stepping into the past. Fortunately, we have good news: with Nissan’s 2018 lineup, the future of driving can be in your garage today. Powered by the most innovative available Nissan Intelligent Mobility technologies, this generation of smart cars offers a game-changing experience behind the wheel, seamlessly integrating available cutting-edge tech into the reliability and performance that drivers expect from Nissan. Read more…

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Nissan takes another baby step as it eyes 2020 for self-driving cars

Don’t freak out yet: This thing isn’t fully autonomous. But it could make life easier for lazy highway drivers. 
The 2019 Nissan Altima debuted at the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday. It’s the newest update to Nissan’s top-selling …

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Nissan targets sales of 1 million EVs annually by 2022

Nissan is hoping to achieve a target of selling 1 million electrified vehicles across its portfolio by its fiscal 2022, the automaker announced today. The target is part of its overarching strategic mid-term plan leading up to 2022. To be included in the sales total, models sold by Nissan need to either be pure electric […]

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Nissan and DeNA will begin testing a self-driving taxi service in Japan next month

 Nissan Motor and DeNA announced today that field tests of Easy Ride, the self-driving taxi service they developed together, will begin next month in Japan. This means that Nissan and DeNA now rank among Uber, Lyft, GM, Didi Chuxing and other comp…

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Nissan Xmotion concept blends sci-fi and serenity – and includes a fish friend

 Nissan has a brand new concept vehicle it unveiled at CES this year, called the ‘Xmotion.’ The crossover SUV concept vehicle features sleek exterior lines with sharp angles to accentuate details like the headlights, and inside blends touchscreen displays, innovative control mechanisms and spare accents to provide a look that’s both futuristic, and strangely rural and… Read More

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Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi launches $1 billion corporate venture capital fund

 The world’s largest automaker, Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi, has launched a $1 billion corporate venture capital fund to focus on investments in “new mobility” including electrification, autonomous systems, network connectivity and artificial intelligence. Called Alliance Ventures, the fund has already made its first investment, taking an equity stake for an… Read More

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Nissan’s latest invention plugs into your brain to help avoid car accidents

Japanese automobile manufacturer, Nissan, has just unveiled a new technology that interprets the drivers’ brain signals to tell which actions they intend to take next. The system, called “Brain-to-Vehicle” technology, can then transmit this informatio…

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