Nissan announces rollout of ProPILOT technology

Since it was first announced in 2016, ProPILOT evolved in 2019 to navigated highway driving, with hands-off single-lane driving capabilities. It has been installed in a wide range of cars Nissan vehicles to date, and has received high praise from customers around the world as technology they can use with peace of mind to reduce stress and tiredness.

Nissan have announced that it will launch the next generation ProPILOT technology from 2027 fiscal year. The system which features Nissan Ground Truth Perception technology along with next-generation Lidar and Wayve AI Driver software, aims to set a new standard for autonomous driving with advanced collision avoidance capability.

Wayve AI Driver Software, built on Wayve’s embodied AI foundation model, is designed to handle highly complex real-world driving conditions in a human-like manner. The technology’s ability to efficiently and rapidly learn from vast amounts of data ensures continuous advantages for Nissan vehicles of the future.

Wayve is a global AI company that is pioneering embodied AI for driving. Its embodied AI foundation model is trained on vast amounts of real-world experience using custom GenAI technology to enable point-to-point driving across urban and highway environments with greater safety and reliability. The foundation model excels at adapting to new scenarios and platforms in order to accelerate wide deployment of its autonomous driving technology.

Nissan believes that in the future of automated driving, driver-assistance technology that can avoid the highly complex accidents that occur in the real world will be essential in ensuring customer peace of mind.

This is why Nissan has invested so heavily in an advanced driver-assistance technology that dramatically enhances collision-avoidance performance thanks to ground truth perception technology.

This technology is able to make instant decisions and manoeuvre with real-time precision recognition of surroundings, such as avoiding obstacles and cars that stop suddenly. The technology is even able to react to avoid collisions with flying objects thanks to precise 3D space recognition.

Ground truth perception is precise 3D perception of the vehicle’s surroundings by fusion of next-generation LiDAR, camera and radar. The combination of this technology offers new levels of detail detection.

Advanced cameras are able to recognise scene context including vehicle type, road structure, traffic sign, character while the radar systems are able to recognise motion, including distance and speed of surrounding objects.