Nissan's robot concept 'cars' avoid accidents by mimicking fish
by Jeremy Korzeniewski (RSS feed) on Oct 2nd, 2009 at 1:31PM
Nissan sleeps with the fishes? Well, no... not exactly. But we'd guess someone in Nissan's Japanese think tank must watch a little too much Discovery Channel. We've all seen those amazing videos where unspeakably large schools of fish travel huge distances without anyone or anything to guide them. Somehow, it's all very organized and the fish don't seem to have any problems with traffic jams – which is more than we can say for us bipedal earth-goers. Apparently, Nissan has noticed the same thing. Using two laser range finders mounted so that each unit has a 288-degree field of... Read More
