Nissan, Wayve sign deal for next-gen ProPILOT AI tech
Nissan and Wayve to integrate AI Driver into ProPILOT
Nissan, Wayve sign deal for next-gen ProPILOT AI tech
Nissan and Wayve announced definitive agreements to integrate Wayve AI Driver with next-gen ProPILOT, targeting mass-produced vehicles. Read details.
2025-12-11T08:28:02Z
2025-12-11T08:28:02Z
2025-12-11T08:28:02Z
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Nissan and Wayve have signed definitive agreements to bring Wayve’s AI software into Nissan’s next-generation ProPILOT driver assistance system, a move aimed at putting advanced, AI-driven assistance into mass-produced vehicles worldwide.
The partnership centers on integrating Wayve AI Driver—Wayve’s embodied AI approach—into the next ProPILOT series across a broad range of Nissan vehicles. Nissan says the combined system is intended to support both ADAS functions and »point-to-point” advanced driving, drawing on ProPILOT’s sensor setups that can include cameras, radar and LiDAR.
The deal builds on Nissan’s ProPILOT roadmap: the company introduced ProPILOT in 2016 for single-lane highway assistance and expanded the concept with ProPILOT 2.0 in 2019, adding multi-lane support and hands-off functionality in defined conditions. Nissan has also described ProPILOT 2.0 as relying on advanced sensors and 3D HD map data on predetermined routes.
In September 2025, Nissan showed a prototype that combined Wayve AI Driver with Nissan’s Ground Truth Perception technology and next-generation LiDAR, demonstrating assistance on highways and in complex urban environments. Reporting around that demonstration characterized the system as Level 2 and described the prototype’s sensor suite as including multiple cameras and radars plus a LiDAR—underscoring that it remains driver assistance rather than full autonomy, with the driver expected to stay in control.
Now, the focus shifts from prototypes to deployment. Nissan says it plans to introduce the first model equipped with this next-generation ProPILOT in Japan in fiscal year 2027, with global markets—including Japan and North America—also in view. For Wayve, Nissan’s commitment signals a rare opportunity to scale an end-to-end embodied AI system in everyday cars; for Nissan, it is a bid to widen ProPILOT’s real-world capability while keeping it within the boundaries of an assistive system.
Nissan, Wayve, ProPILOT, Wayve AI Driver, driver assistance, ADAS, embodied AI, LiDAR, Level 2, Japan FY2027, North America
2025
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Nissan and Wayve announced definitive agreements to integrate Wayve AI Driver with next-gen ProPILOT, targeting mass-produced vehicles. Read details.
Nissan and Wayve have signed definitive agreements to bring Wayve’s AI software into Nissan’s next-generation ProPILOT driver assistance system, a move aimed at putting advanced, AI-driven assistance into mass-produced vehicles worldwide.
The partnership centers on integrating Wayve AI Driver—Wayve’s embodied AI approach—into the next ProPILOT series across a broad range of Nissan vehicles. Nissan says the combined system is intended to support both ADAS functions and “point-to-point” advanced driving, drawing on ProPILOT’s sensor setups that can include cameras, radar and LiDAR.
The deal builds on Nissan’s ProPILOT roadmap: the company introduced ProPILOT in 2016 for single-lane highway assistance and expanded the concept with ProPILOT 2.0 in 2019, adding multi-lane support and hands-off functionality in defined conditions. Nissan has also described ProPILOT 2.0 as relying on advanced sensors and 3D HD map data on predetermined routes.
In September 2025, Nissan showed a prototype that combined Wayve AI Driver with Nissan’s Ground Truth Perception technology and next-generation LiDAR, demonstrating assistance on highways and in complex urban environments. Reporting around that demonstration characterized the system as Level 2 and described the prototype’s sensor suite as including multiple cameras and radars plus a LiDAR—underscoring that it remains driver assistance rather than full autonomy, with the driver expected to stay in control.
Now, the focus shifts from prototypes to deployment. Nissan says it plans to introduce the first model equipped with this next-generation ProPILOT in Japan in fiscal year 2027, with global markets—including Japan and North America—also in view. For Wayve, Nissan’s commitment signals a rare opportunity to scale an end-to-end embodied AI system in everyday cars; for Nissan, it is a bid to widen ProPILOT’s real-world capability while keeping it within the boundaries of an assistive system.
