{"id":30194,"date":"2025-09-22T02:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/30194\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T02:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:18:07","slug":"nissan-showcases-assisted-driving-system-using-uk-startup-wayves-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/30194\/","title":{"rendered":"Nissan showcases assisted driving system using UK startup Wayve&#8217;s technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">TOKYO (Reuters) -Nissan Motor said on Monday it has started testing a new driver-assistance system that uses technology from British startup Wayve, ahead of a planned launch in Japan in the 2027 financial year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Japanese automaker demonstrated the system in Tokyo earlier this month using Ariya electric vehicles equipped with advanced collision avoidance features designed to assist drivers in urban areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">City streets pose greater challenges for driver assistance systems than highways, due to the presence of pedestrians, parked vehicles and delivery workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The prototype vehicles are equipped with 11 cameras, five radars and one lidar sensor, and offer Level 2 autonomous driving capabilities, which require drivers to be ready to take over with hands on the wheel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Wayve, which has received funding from SoftBank Group and Nvidia, opened a testing and development centre in Japan earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Nissan launched its ProPilot system in 2016 and rolled out a second-generation version in 2019 to assist with highway driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">It has not yet disclosed which models will be equipped with the next-generation system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Daniel Leussink; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO (Reuters) -Nissan Motor said on Monday it has started testing a new driver-assistance system that uses technology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,25852,25851,85,46,1437,25850,25849,125,25853],"class_list":["post-30194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-collision-avoidance","tag-driver-assistance-systems","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-japanese-automaker","tag-nissan-motor","tag-technology","tag-wayve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}