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Automakers intending to bring driverless cars to market need to work as much on software design as mechanical engineering, the researcher leading Nissan Motor Co.\u2019s automated-vehicle program said.<\/p>\n
Making cars that are \u201cdeliberative\u201d in assessing road conditions, rather than just reactive, requires artificial intelligence, Maarten Sierhuis, director of Nissan\u2019s Silicon Valley research center in Sunnyvale, California, said in an interview. The carmaker, which aims to sell vehicles that can drive themselves by 2020 or sooner, is developing software to read and filter sensor data much as a human brain does, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat the auto industry has to come to is a shift from thinking about the car as a physical, mechanical system,\u201d Sierhuis said in an interview Tuesday during the Automated Vehicles Symposium in San Francisco. \u201cAutonomy, autonomous systems, is about understanding how humans do that, and then replicating it with software.\u201d<\/p>\n