{"id":133800,"date":"2019-02-18T10:33:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=133800"},"modified":"2019-02-18T11:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:53:02","slug":"renault-nissan-mitsubishi-alliance-partnering-with-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2019\/02\/renault-nissan-mitsubishi-alliance-partnering-with-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance Partnering With Google"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance is making plans with Waymo to find ways to exploit the ever-changing mobility world.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, which is preparing to hang together in the post-Ghosn era, plans to join Google’s camp\u00a0for developing autonomous taxis and other services using self-driving vehicles.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0automakers intend to work with Waymo, a Google spinoff that is among the leaders in technology for\u00a0self-driving cars.\u00a0The companies are in the final phase of talks, and\u00a0plan to announce\u00a0the arrangement as early as spring, according to a Japanese news service.<\/p>\n

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Global News!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The partnership would unite a car\u00a0alliance whose\u00a0global sales totaled 10.8 million automobiles\u00a0in 2018 with a developer whose\u00a0self-driving vehicles have traveled more than 10 million miles on U.S. public roads as of October. Waymo\u00a0has forged similar deals\u00a0with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Jaguar Land Rover, but the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi alliance boasts greater scale.<\/p>\n

Nissan’s pivot to embrace a major outside partner\u00a0in self-driving marks an attempt to catch up in a field where the alliance trails its rivals.\u00a0BMW and Ford Motor plan to have fully automated driving systems commercialized around 2021, a year ahead of\u00a0Nissan’s 2022 goal.<\/p>\n

(Ghosn affair hits Nissan’s bottom line. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The alliance of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi and Waymo will cooperate in what is known as mobility as a service, or MaaS,\u00a0a shift from vehicle ownership to the use of on-demand\u00a0transportation. Possibilities include developing a fleet of driverless taxis using Nissan vehicles\u00a0and a system that handles reservations and payments.<\/p>\n

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Jaguar will provide up to around 20,000 vehicles for Waymo's ride-sharing service, and may provide a blueprint for its plans with Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Waymo\u00a0debuted a commercial self-driving taxi service\u00a0in Phoenix late last year. Renault\u2019s strong presence in electric cars offers the Google affiliate a chance to be at the forefront of establishing standards for\u00a0next-generation vehicles.<\/p>\n

Google is a key player in\u00a0developing\u00a0infrastructure for onboard services, with products such as Google Maps.\u00a0The Alliance, with its wide\u00a0reach in Asia and elsewhere, can help the company\u00a0launch self-driving technologies in more markets.<\/p>\n

Creating software for autonomous cars\u00a0requires considerable spending to accumulate\u00a0and analyze\u00a0vast amounts of vehicle operation data. Boston Consulting Group estimates the development of self-driving taxis will require $1.8 trillion in investment by 2035.<\/p>\n

The enormous cost of the autonomous vehicle technology is forcing both tech companies and automakers to forge alliances that spread the risks and the potential rewards of autonomous vehicles, which also would create new forms of mobility services and ultimately vehicle ownership.<\/p>\n

(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for more about how the\u00a0Ghosn scandal threatens the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance.<\/em><\/strong>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Under Ghosn, Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi had shared automation\u00a0technology with an eye towards sparking a quick commercialization of\u00a0collision avoidance\u00a0and driver assistance systems. The group has\u00a0also forged\u00a0some partnerships with outside developers.<\/p>\n

Nissan teamed with U.S. space agency NASA in 2015 to develop remote control technology and\u00a0Japanese online services developer DeNA in 2017 to create a hailing service with automated driving. In September, the alliance decided to fully introduce Google’s Android operating system in its onboard information systems starting in\u00a02021.<\/p>\n

Nissan has been relying more\u00a0on outside resources to develop connected cars, automated driving, sharing services and electric vehicles — new areas of\u00a0auto industry competition\u00a0collectively referred to as CASE. The automaker decided to sell a battery subsidiary in 2017 and now procures the component from Chinese and other suppliers.<\/p>\n

Under Ghosn, the alliance tended to put practical gains ahead of other considerations in choosing partners. The new leadership chosen following Ghosn’s\u00a0arrest in Japan looks likely to continue this course.<\/p>\n

Rival automakers also are expanding their partnerships with other industries. Toyota Motor is collaborating with Uber Technologies to advance the Japanese company’s Guardian driver assistance\u00a0system. Toyota plans to release self-driving cars with Uber’s software and the Guardian system in 2021. It also is cooperating with SoftBank Group to popularize its e-Palette, an electric vehicle for mobility.<\/p>\n

(To see more about Waymo building self-driving cars in Michigan, <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition, Honda has teamed up General Motors Corp. through GM’s Cruze Automation unit to develop AV technology that GM expects to have on the road by 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, which is preparing to hang together in the post-Ghosn era, plans to join Google’s camp for developing autonomous taxis and other services using self-driving vehicles. To see what the plans are go to TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":126765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,12,9],"tags":[],"make":[87,90,99,115],"post-state":[],"category_old":[286,150,151,313,123,287,318,319,289,155,299,317,132,194,284,189,125,225,137,290,291,288,245],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133800"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=133800"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=133800"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=133800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}