Fully autonomous Nissan cars by 2022

Nissan Motor Co. says it’s aiming to introduce fully autonomous cars to the market in 2022.

The carmaker plans to add autonomous driving functions step by step, first allowing more cars to handle single-lane driving by themselves, and subsequently navigate urban roads, including intersections, by 2020, said Yutaka Sanada, a Nissan senior vice-president, at Bloomberg’s Year Ahead Asia conference in Jakarta.

Nissan is racing with new entrants to the auto industry such as Google’s Waymo and Tesla as well as bigger rivals including General Motors to develop fully-autonomous driving cars.