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Put your feet up and let self-driving slippers come to you

Did you ever expect that autonomous driving would bring you self-driving slippers? No, hadn’t occurred to us either. But those clever chaps at Nissan….
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26 January 2018

YOU arrive at the hotel and a row of slippers scamper back into formation.

Now. I know you, you’re rubbing your eyes and thinking…This is a wind up.

But it’s Japan – and this is the ProPILOT Park Ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn, or ryokan. But traditional only in a modern sense.

Autonomous self-parking slippers vie for your attention along with tables and cushions that scuttle back into place to keep the ryokan neat and tidy.

It is, truly, a whole new world of autonomy.

Of course, it’s a clever way for Nissan to demonstrate its new ProPILOT Park autonomous parking technology. When not in use, the slippers automatically return to their designated spots at the push of a button.

ProPILOT Park was first introduced on the all-new Nissan LEAF and it detects surrounding objects and lets drivers automatically park the vehicle in a selected parking space by pressing a button. The same tech is now part of the amenities to entertain guests at the ProPILOT Park Ryokan.

It delivers a whole new meaning to that old fifties cliché of ‘bring me my pipe and slippers!’

Self-parking slippers...and Nissan's ProPilot technology on the new Nissan Leaf
Self-parking slippers, courtesy of Nissan’s ProPilot technology on the new Nissan Leaf

 

 

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Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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