Nissan develop Spidey-sense for cars. Cars will now sense danger so you don't have to.

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Yesterday Nissan previewed a clever new sensor technology that does more than just beep when you’re in imminent danger – it actually intervenes a little bit.

Sensors are put into the driver’s blind spots – typically to the immediate sides and just behind the driver’s seat – to detect if you’re getting dangerously close to any other vehicles. Presumably if the technology is adapted for white vans, this mean will mean that everywhere but straight-ahead will be covered in danger sensors…

Nissan Mixim: the concept car for the digital generation

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Nissan has unveiled its Mixim concept car, an electric vehicle which has been designed to appeal to today’s teenagers, who’ll be old enough to drive by the time it goes on sale in 2012.

The company says it surveyed hundreds of 15-17 year-olds around the world to get their input, discovering that “these people are not interested in cars”. How’s Nissan going to change that? By making the steering wheel look like a console race controller, and putting the driver seat in the middle of the car’s cockpit, that’s how.