YOKOHAMA: The top executive overseeing connected vehicles at Nissan and Renault believes the benefits of developing a common technology for connectivity within the Japanese and French auto partnership outweigh the risks of sustaining huge damage from a possible defect or cyberattack. Nissan-Renault hopes to lead in connected vehicles, in addition to green cars and self-driving cars, the two other increasingly vital auto technologies. But Redzic was vague about what might be expected, although he stressed Nissan hopes to be different from rivals in the connected services, even if companies cooperate on a standard technology. Last month, the alliance said it had a partnership with Microsoft Corp. to develop next-generation connected services for cars powered by Microsoft Azure, one of the company’s cloud offerings. Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan’s Japanese rival, for instance, has established an internal company focused on connected vehicles.

Source: New Strait Times October 25, 2016 08:03 UTC