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Report: Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi to Partner with Waymo
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance is finalizing plans to partner with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit to develop autonomous vehicle services, The Nikkei reports.
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The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance is finalizing plans to partner with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit to develop autonomous vehicle services, The Nikkei reports.
The partnership could be announced this spring, according to the newspaper. The companies declined to comment.
Part of the collaboration would involve using Nissan vehicles as unmanned taxis. Nissan’s ProPilot technology that allows for semi-autonomous driving was launched on select models in Japan two years ago.
Waymo also would work with the alliance partners on so-called mobility-as-a-service technologies. Such services would allow users to search for, compare, coordinate, book and pay for various forms of transportation via an integrated smartphone application.
Waymo has separate partnerships with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Jaguar Land Rover. The tech company has been testing fleets of autonomous vehicles in the U.S. for several years, including a for-pay shuttle service in Arizona with fully autonomous Chrysler Pacifica minivans outfitted with Waymo’s technology.
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