The Renault Group said it had developed an autonomous control system that handles challenging driving scenarios and, as a claimed industry first, has obstacle avoidance capability as good as professional test drivers.
The system was developed at Renault Open Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley, one of several in the Alliance, focused on improving safety and advancing autonomous driving technology.
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The automaker said the lates advancement was inspired by and tested against professional test drivers, complements Renault's existing achievements in driver assistance systems (ADAS) and vehicle safety and is an important next step in using autonomous driving to improve vehicle safety and will support the group's goal of becoming one of the first brands to offer widely available 'mind off' technology on mainstream vehicles and to deploy fleets of robo-vehicles.
The basis for this work comes from research published by Stanford University's Dynamic Design Lab with which the Open Innovation Lab collaborates.
Renault plans to launch at least 15 models with different levels of autonomous driving capabilities by 2022.
