Nissan successfully tested driverless car using at NASA Centre

With the help from NASA space technology, automaker Nissan has successfully test-driven its all-electric, driverless car at NASA’s Ames Research Centre in California that will help scientists send self-driving vehicles on deeper space missions.

• The Nissan LEAF vehicle is equipped with cameras, sensors and cellular data networking.
• It uses robotics software originally developed for Ame’s K-10 and K-REXplanetary rovers to operate autonomously.

Last year, the US space agency and the automaker Nissan announced a five-year partnership to build self-driving, zero-emission autonomous cars for earth- and eventually space.

• The partnership allows researchers to develop and test autonomy algorithms, concepts and integrated prototypes for a variety of vehicular transport applications.