Toronto, Ontario — A new piece of LiDAR-based technology from Nissan is aiming to prevent collisions and keep drivers safe, even in the middle of an intersection, as a video unveiled by the company earlier this month would show.
A Nissan vehicle is shown travelling down a test track, toward an intersection—suddenly a motorcycle comes out of nowhere, looking like it is about to shoot across the intersection. Does carnage ensue?
Nope. The Nissan smoothly decelerates and stops with room to spare between it and the unscathed motorcycle.
The Japanese automaker says this system uses innovative “ground-truth perception technology” that can detect an object’s speed, location, and potential risk of a collision from a lateral direction.
The press release goes further to state that this particular piece of technology is aimed to address and mitigate highly deadly t-bone crashes that tend to occur at busy intersections, often due to driver error.
Speaking on the recent testing of this currently in-development ADAS technology, the head of Nissan’s research and advanced engineering division, Takao Asami, said “Development of this technology is being carried out under Nissan Ambition 2030, the company’s long-term vision. We are on course to develop collision-avoidance technology utilizing next-generation LIDAR technology by the mid-2020s.
“Aiming to develop future autonomous driving technologies that customers can use with peace of mind, Nissan is working to fully understand the entire range of accident scenarios by analyzing complex accidents that occur in the real world. Our efforts are aimed to substantially improve accident avoidance.”
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