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Honda Drive Recorder-Blackbox now for your new Honda.
Airplanes have blackboxes to help find the cause of an accident, Honda hopes to bring about this technology for your car to help ease insurance claims. Honda has come up with the Drive Recorder for its new line up of cars, these are capable of detecting impacts while saving information of up to a dozen…
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Honda adds more brains to the Asimo
,span class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image”> Honda developed an intelligence technology that enhances smooth movement by enabling ASIMO to choose between stepping back and yielding the right-of-way or continuing to walk based on the predicted movement of oncoming people. Honda also developed a new intelligence technology related to ASIMO’s ability to perform tasks such as carrying a tray…
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Honda gives blogger keys to the $10,000,000 Hydrogen car
Mike from South Africa blogged about his wish to drive an Aston Martin and got a shiny DB9 for a day. The bloggers from Jalopnik will be taking the Honda FCX Clarity for a ride. The concept car runs on hydrogen emits pure water and gives the gasoline equivalent of 68 mpg. Oh yeah, almost…
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Honda’s new hybrid plans to outdo Toyota Prius
In a bid to outshine Toyota’s Prius, Honda is planning for its next generation hybrid, with annual worldwide sales expected to be close to 200,000 and half of which will vie for North American consumer’s attention. Unlike the Civic Hybrid which did nothing to shake Prius’ success, the new model will only be available with…
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Honda’s Puyo glows, is soft won’t dent in a crash
Words like soft, glow and cushy seem apt for things like stuffed toys; you don’t associate it with cars. But Honda thinks otherwise, it’s concept car Puyo has no sharp edges and is covered in soft silicone (same material used for some mousepads or iPod covers) so it can absorb the force of light collisions.…
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Honda PUYO, get closer and Touch
PUYO is a Japanese expression that conjures the sensation of “touching the vehicle’s soft body.” I wonder if that’s what I will feel when I encounter the car but till then I will have to take Honda’s word for it. It’s Honda’s way of conveying a warm, friendly impression and bringing together ‘clean’, ‘safe’ and…
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Japanese car manufacturers to collaborate on a standard operating system
When you use a vehicle numerous electronics control devices are used, including those controlling fuel injection, brakes, air bags, power steering and power windows. All these work on a basic platform or a basic software OS. To develop “an operating system for automotive electronics”, the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry jointly with 10 automakers have…
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Honda car navigation service updates you on roads and earthquakes in real time
Honda Japan has added a new service to its “internavi Premium Club,” an information delivery service for vehicles. For eg – when a major new road is opened for traffic or closed down for some reason the map information is updated in just a few minutes. The new service delivers only the difference between the…
