Other companies are also hustling to get vehicles up and running.
Hyundai of South Korea is expected to sell 1.64 million vehicles, up from 1.4 million last year.
At that rate, 2013 sales for the industry would be 15.7 million vehicles, up from 14.1 million last year.
The car can detect and avoid pedestrians, and will also brake to avoid collisions with vehicles up in front.
Hyundai Automotive claimed 4.2percentt of the United States market in January; with Hyundai Motor selling 27,179 vehicles, up 0.2percentt; and Kia selling 18,524 vehicles, up 11.8percentt.
Sales of alternatively fuelled vehicles were up by a fifth, outstripping diesel cars (up 5.6%) and petrol vehicles (up 10.7%).
For the first nine months of the year, it sold 1.7 million vehicles, up from 1.4 million in the same period in 2011.
The automaker raised its forecast for global auto sales for this financial year to 7.48 million vehicles, up from its earlier forecast of 7.41 million.
Much of the growth was in the United States, Nissan's biggest market, where it sold 1.01 million vehicles, up 11percentt from the previous year.
During the first two weeks of 2001, Union Park sold 121 vehicles, up from 105 during the corresponding period of last year.
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers said the country's 11 carmakers sold 64,821 vehicles, up from 37,445 in January.
