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The average machine is opened and closed 45,000 times over the course of 10 years — sometimes gently, sometimes with enthusiasm, occasionally slammed when you're having a bad day. Imagine being the worker who has to do that open-shut cycling to prove the durability of the door hinges, latch mechanisms, weatherstripping, and window glass frames.

Nissan has enlisted an automatic test device, a 1.5-ton door-durability robot, to examination car door reliability at the Nissan Technical Eye North America (NTCNA) in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The robot is nicknamed Rosie, or Mrs. Doorboto. In three days, Mrs. Doorboto opens and closes a door as much every bit that typical customer does over the course of a decade, working around the clock, with no coffee, bathroom, or lunch breaks. For all her piece of work (and with apologies to Styx), Nissan says, "Domo arigato, Mrs. Doorboto."

A Visitor of Tech Breakthroughs, Cool Options

Nissan is more than robotic door testers. It has been a visitor with intriguing technologies. Information technology is the top seller of electric vehicles. It has a home charging arrangement with the power to feed the Leaf's battery power back to the house during a blackout. A second version uses recycled EV batteries as a home backup power source.

Nissan'due south habitation free energy storage can charge a Leaf or use the Leaf's batteries to power a house for 1-three days.

Nisan was the strongest supporter of continuously variable transmissions (CVT) as the bugs were being worked out; now many others use CVTs, as well.

Nissan was out early on with 360-degree camera systems (Around View Monitor). It was start with Easy Fill for adding air to tires, in the 2013 Nissan Altima sedan.

Rogue Dogue concept SUV.

At the New York Auto Show, Nissan showed the Rogue Dogue concept motorcar, a Nissan Rogue compact SUV with the cargo area outfitted with a doggie mattress, rear compartment HVAC vents, slide-out nutrient and h2o dispensers, and a slide-away ramp to help the pooch get in and out of the car. If the dog gets dirty (it happens), there's a ten-gallon water tank with sprayer for washing Fido and a compressed heated air dryer.