As Advanced Drive Assistance Systems (ADAS) fitment rates grow, questions are growing concerning the expected timeline for the emergence of so-called autonomous vehicles. Carlos Ghosn, who leads the Renault-Nissan Alliance, has provided an update on the Alliance’s latest view.

What is ‘autonomous drive’? Carlos Ghosn: “Autonomous drive combines the technology of robotics, artificial intelligence, sensors and car-to-car connectivity. It is a range of technologies that will be added to our cars over the next several years.”

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Renault-Nissan’s timeline

Late-2016: Renault-Nissan plans to offer the “Traffic Jam Pilot,” a feature that allows the car to drive autonomously and safely in heavy, stop-and-go traffic. This eventually will be offered across a “wide range” of Nissan, Infiniti and Renault vehicles.

2018: – ‘lane change’. Technology that allows a car to autonomously negotiate hazards and change lanes.

2020: A package of autonomous drive technologies on multiple models. This will include the introduction of vehicles that can navigate without driver intervention in “nearly all situations”, including complex city driving.

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2025+The fully driverless car that can operate fully autonomously, even with nobody in it, is “at least a decade away”. The vision is of a car that can be sent from its base to pick up passengers. Ghosn expects the “technology will be perfected well before it hits the street, because there are a host of regulatory, legal and security issues that must be resolved first”.

See also: UK: Autonomous cars coming around 2025 – KPMG