Carlos Ghosn “Test-Drives” The Autonomous, Self-Driving Nissan LEAF (Video)

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Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn (one of the biggest champions of electric cars in the world) recently had the chance to “test-drive” the automated version of the Nissan LEAF at the CEATEC technology exhibition in Japan. He had quite the reaction. 🙂 Check out the video:

http://youtu.be/A5aTriiIUHE

In related news, the outspoken CEO recently made the interesting comment that “the explosion of the electric car” would only come once China made strong move in that direction. An interesting comment — it certainly will be interesting to see what happens if/when China starts pushing harder for the technology.

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James Ayre

James Ayre's background is predominantly in geopolitics and history, but he has an obsessive interest in pretty much everything. After an early life spent in the Imperial Free City of Dortmund, James followed the river Ruhr to Cofbuokheim, where he attended the University of Astnide. And where he also briefly considered entering the coal mining business. He currently writes for a living, on a broad variety of subjects, ranging from science, to politics, to military history, to renewable energy.

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One thought on “Carlos Ghosn “Test-Drives” The Autonomous, Self-Driving Nissan LEAF (Video)”

  • Jouni Valkonen
    October 8, 2013 at 7:04 am
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    Autonomous long-distance drive
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKqJccK_EkM

    Nissan perhaps wants to be first, but Mercedes seems to be ahead of Nissan. Mecedes joined Google who demonstrated autonomous driving in normal variable traffic.

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