Autonomous cars will transform life for society's most vulnerable

Autonomous cars will transform life for society's most vulnerable

Self-driving vehicles may be some way off. But they could offer cost-effective solutions Nissan has now finished testing autonomous cars on UK roads, as its EvolvAD project has come to a close – the last part of an eight-year scheme. This bit was to see whether a self-driving Nissan Leaf could operate outside of cities and in less connected areas, on residential and single-track country roads, to discover what types of technology will be necessa…

The Evolvad project, led by Nissan and supported by several partners, concludes after eight years of research and testing in different environments in the UK. With more than 26,000 kilometres of accident-free travel, the initiative evaluates the viability of autonomous mobility and its future implementation in cities and roads.