Security is for everyone. Nissan crossover equipped with driver assistance devices

VALLELUNGA – Safety is all the more important when it comes to widely used cars. One of them is certainly the Qashqai, the most sold crossover in Europe and the most popular in its segment in Italy where the Japanese car manufactured in the UK in the first 5 months of the year. year has reached 14,500 units, adding to more than 300,000 already in circulation, a substantial portion of the 2.3 million products up to here by the Sunderland plant since 2006.

Then the crossover segment had Indian reserve dimensions, today a new car out of 3 is high-wheeler and competition is steadily growing in quantity and quality, which is why even the champions like the Qashqai can not rest on their laurels and, after the restyling of last year, the ProPilot arrives, it is the badisted driving system already added to the other security system present and is the first step towards autonomous driving.

The ProPilot introduces Adaptive Cruise Control, which automatically adjusts the speed to the base of the preceding vehicle, the Active Lane Maintenance System, which acts on the steering wheel to hold the car between the lines of the vehicle. demarcation, and the traffic badistant who, in addition to maintaining the right trajectory, stops and starts the car at each stop by reducing driving constraints and reducing the risk of collision, even if the latter option is active only in the presence of the automatic transmission. All thanks to two innovations: the stereoscopic camera mounted on the windshield and the radar sensor placed behind the Nissan logo on the grille. Their combined action makes it possible to control the surrounding traffic and to appropriately instruct the steering, the accelerator and the brake, by improving the sensitivity of the existing safety systems, from autonomous braking with pedestrian recognition. .

Put the ProPilot action, there is a new blue button on the right side of the steering wheel, next to cruise control controls, and the viewer at the center of the instrumentation has been changed in the graphics that warns when the system is activated showing the proximity of another vehicle facing and holding the vehicle inside the lane. It is therefore a driving aid system and the first step towards a true autonomous driving, that of level 4 and level 5, the one where the car will no longer need the steering wheel and the pedals. Nissan will get there step by step, but from the early years of the next decade and still maintaining the ProPilot brand as part of the Intelligent Mobility strategy that also includes the connected car and of course the electrification, area in which the Japanese brand does not accept anyone's lessons since the Leaf is the most viewed electric car in history and only the second generation has just been launched.

The Qashqai offers the ProPilot (for the moment) only with the 130 hp 1.6 diesel engine, both with manual transmission and all wheel drive in the one with Xtronic automatic transmission with continuous ratio variation and traction before, and is standard on the Tekna and Tekna + top fittings and on request on the N-Connecta: it costs 1000 euros, but must be taken in combination with the Pilot Assistant Pack which, in 700 euros, provides parking badistance, a tracking of moving objects behind the vehicle, a warning of fatigue and the blind corner. The Qashqai range is also available at the Visia, Acenta and Business levels and with other engines, including the 1.5 diesel 110 (3.8 liters / 100 km equivalent to 99 g / km CO2) hp and 4 engines. direct injection petrol turbo cylinders 1,2 of 115 hp and 1.6 of 163 hp (200 km / h, 0-100 km / h in 8.9 s). The price list starts at 21 300 €.