“This is the future of motoring!”, says Brad, 93, after a trip in a self-driving Nissan

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00:00Exciting. That's what it was like. Exciting.

00:19I started driving in 1947 when I was just 17.

00:24But cars were different in those days.

00:26You had to crank it up, which I haven't got the strength to do anymore.

00:29You certainly had low indicators where if you wanted to turn right,

00:34you had to put your arm out, which you don't do today because you have your watch stolen.

00:42I'm very, very excited about doing the test.

00:45The vehicle you see behind me is our latest autonomous drive research vehicle.

00:49It's a 100% electric Nissan LEAF.

00:52But we combine that with a lot of state-of-the-art sensors

00:55and we basically fuse all of that information together with a high-definition map,

00:59which enables us to accurately position the vehicle on a road.

01:02Roller roads themselves are really quite unique in Europe.

01:05They're quite windy. There is a lack of road marking on the edge.

01:08There's a lack of white lines.

01:10But they're also real high speed and you get vehicles coming in the opposite direction.

01:15And it's really important that we solve the ability to drive on these roller roads

01:19to make autonomous mobility services a success in the future.

01:23We really hope that we can bring people into the environment that we're working in,

01:27such as some older drivers, to really experience what it's like to be a passenger.

01:54It was fantastic.

01:56I thought I was going to be frightened. I thought I was going to be worried.

01:59Nothing at all. I was very, very happy with it.

02:01Very relieved. Very relaxed.