London-based autonomous driving start-up Wayve has announced it will be installing its software in Nissan vehicles, as part of its first-ever deal with a global carmaker.
Nissan’s newly announced “ProPILOT” system technology will reportedly combine the automaker’s Ground Truth Perception technology with Lidar and Wayve AI Driver software.
Nissan announced on Thursday the new platform will “set a new standard for autonomous driving with advanced collision avoidance capability”.
The agreement comes only a year after the British start-up collected an impressive $1 billion in funding from big names such as SoftBank, Nvidia, Microsoft and others, providing more-than-sufficient funds for expansion.
Wayve was founded in 2017 by Cambridge alumni Alex Kendall and is now recognised as one of Europe’s best hopes in autonomous driving, with top competitors like Tesla, BYD, Pony.ai, Waymo and Baidu operating in the U.S. and China.
The start-up’s AI Driver software is built on Wayve’s embodied AI foundation model and is designed to handle highly complex real-world driving conditions in a human-like manner.
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