Nissan NSC-2015 drives itself, uses LTE to connect with smartphones

It seems Google is not alone in developing self-driving cars. Take for example the Nissan NSC-2015, which is making its rounds — literally! — at the CEATEC 2012 Smart Mobility 2012 exhibit in Japan. At first glance, it looks just like any ordinary Nissan Leaf electric car. A closer look shows you that it's not your run-of-the-mill Leaf.

This particular concept car from Nissan can run without a driver, as it drives itself and can even park. The car uses servos built into its steering wheel, shifter and pedals. The car senses road markings to keep it driving along its path, and it even stops at pedestrian crossings.

The NSC-2015 communicates with its owner through LTE connectivity, which offers remote-access features, such as seeing a 360-degree view of the car's surroundings while parked, and being alerted on your Android smartphone when someone is tampering with the car. Users can even set off the car alarm remotely.

Check out the video demonstration below. The Nissan NSC-2015 may not yet be available on streets anytime soon, although Nissan hopes to make the technology commercially available by 2015 (hence the name).

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ConCal

Its kinda funny to think that companies can purchase spectrum. Its kind of like a business owning a color.
- MacMan156
  
  Step back! No one can use my shade of pink! It’s mine!
  - Magnetic1
    
    But it would be rude to show up in a pink tie that you are already wearing. FCC does this color coordination thing so that people can blend, so to speak without being unfashionable.
Anthony Hart

This would solve most of our problems I think….

Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb
http://www.ted.com/talks/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_every_light_bulb.html
Magnetic1

This argument is like the oil companies complaining about not getting enough leases on federal land to drill.
Companies sit on the hands when they don’t want to invest in new research. Have you ever heard of bandwidth efficiency?
Well if they can improve automotive fuel economy then I think the FCC could get off their butt and start influencing the industry to improve bandwidth efficiency. So far it appears, most of the capacity gains of late had to do with queuing theory more than anything else.
Carrier aggregation is lumping more channels together to offer opportunity for more channel sharing, not really anything new here.
- http://www.facebook.com/j.hamernickramseier John Hamernick-Ramseier
  
  To implement automotive efficiency is easier than implementing spectrum efficiency. Can it be done, yes. But the would have to refarm spectrum and shut down old networks. All of which takes time because there are people still using phones from 2005, like my parents. People here still using old phones is one of the biggest issues of shut old networks down or refarming. But some network and spectrum efficiency can be applied by updating networks like the hpsa network upgrades.
Mike Reid

NAB ? Interesting…

US carriers tend to eschew enabling FM chips and proving FM apps in smart-phones for a few reasons, including data plan revenue lost and carrier desires to be the gate-keepers of content. Sprint is supposed to be getting ransom later this year from US broadcasters to enable FM, and others may follow, for sufficient $.

So here, TV broadcasters have something the carriers want. TV & FM are different frequency bands, but there is some inter-ownership among large media groups.