Nissan is using Mars Rover tech from NASA to control autonomous car fleets
▻http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/5/14184356/nissan-nasa-mars-rover-autonomous-control-ces-2017
#Nissan has taken #NASA technology built for the Mars Rover to help control fleets of autonomous vehicles. It’s called Seamless Autonomous Mobility (SAM), and Nissan believes it’s a solution for when vehicles don’t know how to handle the unexpected.
[...] SAM allows a [human] “mobility manager” to examine vehicle images and sensor data when the car encounters something it can’t handle and decide on the appropriate course of action.
[...] SAM is adapted from NASA’s Visual Environment for Remote Virtual Exploration (VERVE), which is used to supervise interplanetary robots like the Mars rovers.