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05-20-2009, 03:44 AM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/Japanese_Flag_30x22.jpg HW and SW package for Japan and in Japanese only... (cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=209075)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Honda_Safety_and_Eco-Driving_analysis_simulator_screen_shot_2.jpgWayne Gerdes - CleanMPG (cleanmpg.com) - May 20, 2009
Honda safety Navi - PC based eco-driving sim screen shot.
Tokyo, Japan -- Honda has begun selling “Honda Safety Navi”, a software based driving educational tool.
Combined with a Dell supplied PC and accessories including speakers, a multi-function steering wheel, Game Controller and foot operated accelerator and brake pedals, the Honda Safety Navi system is a simple to use automobile driving simulator for the home or classroom. Honda Safety Navi will be sold as software alone or bundled with the hardware as needed.
Honda has been selling its automobile driving simulators to driving schools since 2001. With Honda’s “Safety Navi”, the driving simulator is ready for the home with easy to learn voice and visual cues making an instructor unnecessary.
The Honda Safety Navi currently contains two types of programs. One program (“Eco-Drive”) helps users understand and learn to drive more efficiently. The other, “Safety Drive Coacher”, helps users learn to drive more safely in a multitude of conditions including snow, rain, and driving at night.
This is Honda’s first attempt to develop automobile simulator software to help drivers learn to eco-drive.
Key features of Honda Safety Navi
“Eco-Drive”
Measures the level of eco-driving for the user’s driving.
Provides easy-to-understand explanations of key points of eco-driving while reviewing the user’s driving.
Diagnose the user’s eco-driving level based on graphs which show the user’s acceleration and fuel-efficiency patterns.
The user drives again based on the instruction provided.
Eco-Drive analysis
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Honda_Safety_and_Eco-Driving_analysis_simulator_screen_shot.jpg
“SD Coacher ”
Driving examination course: Users learn driving skills while driving based on the examiner’s instructions. In addition, users can learn as if they are playing a game while taking a quiz about traffic laws and regulations.
Regular road course: Users learn the risks related to the most common accidents on regular urban roads including collisions that occur between a vehicle heading straight and a vehicle turning right from the opposite lane, as well as other collisions between two cars approaching an intersection.
Highway course: Users learn key safety points of highway driving such as entering the highway and changing lanes.
Driving on snowy road course: Users learn about typical road conditions while vision is limited due to snow and key safety points of snowy road driving.
Driving on rainy road course: Users learn about typical road conditions and safety while vision is limited due to rain.
Night time driving course: Users learn about limited visibility and safety while driving at night.
With pricing of $2,100 for the SW package and $2,971 for the SW and HW bundle, Honda hopes to sell as many as 200 units per year.
Questions remain however... Does the sim include a real time i and aFCD and or is it worth “anything” by comparison to what we do during instruction? A Hypermiling Clinic with real world driving scenarios on local roadways would appear to be much more productive and at a far lower cost.
For the safe driving practices in the rain and snow, gaming SW developers will probably do a far better job at a much lower price plus add racing scenarios while behind the windscreen of a Tesla Roadster, EV Innovations Inizio or an Aptera 2e just for grins :D
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Honda_Safety_and_Eco-Driving_analysis_simulator_screen_shot_2.jpgWayne Gerdes - CleanMPG (cleanmpg.com) - May 20, 2009
Honda safety Navi - PC based eco-driving sim screen shot.
Tokyo, Japan -- Honda has begun selling “Honda Safety Navi”, a software based driving educational tool.
Combined with a Dell supplied PC and accessories including speakers, a multi-function steering wheel, Game Controller and foot operated accelerator and brake pedals, the Honda Safety Navi system is a simple to use automobile driving simulator for the home or classroom. Honda Safety Navi will be sold as software alone or bundled with the hardware as needed.
Honda has been selling its automobile driving simulators to driving schools since 2001. With Honda’s “Safety Navi”, the driving simulator is ready for the home with easy to learn voice and visual cues making an instructor unnecessary.
The Honda Safety Navi currently contains two types of programs. One program (“Eco-Drive”) helps users understand and learn to drive more efficiently. The other, “Safety Drive Coacher”, helps users learn to drive more safely in a multitude of conditions including snow, rain, and driving at night.
This is Honda’s first attempt to develop automobile simulator software to help drivers learn to eco-drive.
Key features of Honda Safety Navi
“Eco-Drive”
Measures the level of eco-driving for the user’s driving.
Provides easy-to-understand explanations of key points of eco-driving while reviewing the user’s driving.
Diagnose the user’s eco-driving level based on graphs which show the user’s acceleration and fuel-efficiency patterns.
The user drives again based on the instruction provided.
Eco-Drive analysis
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Honda_Safety_and_Eco-Driving_analysis_simulator_screen_shot.jpg
“SD Coacher ”
Driving examination course: Users learn driving skills while driving based on the examiner’s instructions. In addition, users can learn as if they are playing a game while taking a quiz about traffic laws and regulations.
Regular road course: Users learn the risks related to the most common accidents on regular urban roads including collisions that occur between a vehicle heading straight and a vehicle turning right from the opposite lane, as well as other collisions between two cars approaching an intersection.
Highway course: Users learn key safety points of highway driving such as entering the highway and changing lanes.
Driving on snowy road course: Users learn about typical road conditions while vision is limited due to snow and key safety points of snowy road driving.
Driving on rainy road course: Users learn about typical road conditions and safety while vision is limited due to rain.
Night time driving course: Users learn about limited visibility and safety while driving at night.
With pricing of $2,100 for the SW package and $2,971 for the SW and HW bundle, Honda hopes to sell as many as 200 units per year.
Questions remain however... Does the sim include a real time i and aFCD and or is it worth “anything” by comparison to what we do during instruction? A Hypermiling Clinic with real world driving scenarios on local roadways would appear to be much more productive and at a far lower cost.
For the safe driving practices in the rain and snow, gaming SW developers will probably do a far better job at a much lower price plus add racing scenarios while behind the windscreen of a Tesla Roadster, EV Innovations Inizio or an Aptera 2e just for grins :D