February 2009
Honda has announced that it will participate in the ITS-Safety 2010 public demonstration in February in Tokyo and demonstrate its latest line of Advanced Safety Vehicles that are equipped with active safety driving support features that utilize “information technologies.”
These Advanced Safety Vehicles are designed to exchange speed and positional information and other data between vehicles (vehicle-to-vehicle communications), as well as between vehicle and road infrastructure (vehicle-to-infrastructure communications), to demonstrate its research into Human Machine Interface (HMI) that provides drivers with information which may help to prevent an accident.
Honda’s Advanced Safety Vehicle research model, based on an Odyssey minivan for the Japanese market, represents the next stage in the development of its vehicle-to-infrastructure driving support systems.
Systems include ‘DSSS,’ developed principally by the Universal Traffic Management Society of Japan (UTMS: overseen by National Police Agency); ‘Smartway,’ promoted by the Road Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT); and ‘ASV,’ promoted by the Road Transport Bureau of MLIT.
The Forza-based research motorcycle used in the same project represents a further evolution of vehicle-to-vehicle communications system developed from the previous model’s preventive safety technologies and further enhancements of the FACE and LONG conspicuity designs, which make motorcycles more noticeable and correctly identifiable to other motorists.
Moreover, the Honda IT Monpal 4 electric cart has also been equipped with wireless communication capabilities to take advantage of vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Honda will continue to move forward with research and development directed at the practical implementation of these component technologies.
Since January 2009, Honda has been participating in ITS-Safety 2010, a large-scale verification testing project for DSSS, Smartway, and ASV in Tokyo’s waterfront subcenter district and surrounding freeways.
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