How Nissan’s car parking technology can unearth the ocean’s hidden resources

Human brain is a complex organ. It enables us to think – think big and also out of the box, giving birth to several ideas that sometimes change the face of technology. This is what has exactly happened in Japan, when a team of engineers used Nissan’s car park assist technology on a new deep sea rover that enables researchers a 360-degree view of the floor.

Nissan and Japan’s Marine Science agency joined hands to build this new rover which is capable of reaching depths of 23,000 feet.  This rover makes use of the same 360-degree camera views that Nissan’s bird’s-eye parking technology uses.

In a car, this technology alerts drivers of what (and who) is nearby to avoid accidents when parking. This same technology when used on this new ocean rover, grants marine researchers a superior view of the weird critters living in the unexplored crannies of the sea.

This cross-industry venture was announced back in April by Nissan, autoparts company Topy Industries, and JAMSTEC (the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology). Although, the park-assist technology used by Nissan is pretty old and has been introduced way back in 2007, this has been the first time that is being used underwater.

Earlier this year, NASA and Nissan had announced that they wanted to work together to use self-driving car technology to build planetary rovers that are more autonomous.

Source: Gizmodo India