Daniel Dingel’s Amazing Water Car

Toyota Develops Another Airbag for Rear-seat Passengers

Toyota Motor Corp. has developed a new airbag to help reduce damage on backseat passengers in side-on collision.

The newly developed rear-seat center airbag, the first of its kind in the world, is fixed and flushed in a back seat center console.

When the vehicle is struck at the side, the rear-seat center airbag deploys. It acts as a safety barrier to reduce injuries when passengers collide with each other.

Toyota’s new airbag will see service in a domestic market model that will be launched in Japan in the near future.

No word yet, though, if the center rear-seat airbag will deploy if someone was actually occupying the center position on the rear seat.

Toyota actively develops and makes available collision safety technology, such as the SRS curtain shield and knee airbags, to ensure its vehicles are more responsive to a wider range of road accidents. (Courtesy of TopGear Philippines)

The Car That Stops Itself

Wow “the car that stops itself.”

The exclusive distributor of Volvo vehicles in the Philippines – Viking Cars, Inc., Has unveiled the new XC60 last May 20, 2009.

The new XC60 is expected to reduce road accidents due to its self-stopping City Safety Technology.

“At speeds below 30kph, if City Safety detects that you’re about to collide with a vehicle in front and you do not react in time, the car will brake automatically and reduce the effect of the impact. If you are traveling at 15kph and the vehicle in front of you is stationary, a collision can be avoided,” Volvo preventive safety engineer Martin Distner said in a statement.

He likewise assured the City Safety system won’t be activated “by mistake” when a driver is parking.

“Volvo conducts vast amounts of research into this so its cars can understand the difference between when you’re in control and when you are distracted,” Distner said.

The City Safety feature works during day- and night-time driving. Its laser detection system, however, may be limited during heavy rains due to the possibility of dirt splashing on to the sensor area.

“It is important to underline that City Safety does not relieve the driver of the responsibility for maintaining a safe distance to avoid collision. The automatic braking function does not react until it considers that a Collision is imminent,” said Jonas Ekmark, Preventive Safety manager at Volvo’s Car Safety Center. (Source: Top Gear Philippines)

Honda City Club Philippines

To All Honda City Owners and Enthusiasts

GPS Navigation System

AVT 800

AVT Intelligent Car Multimedia has just recently launched its first locally supported GPS navigation system – the AVT Navigator A800 or simply AVT 800. It can point you anywhere, directions from known street, establishment and villages within metro manila, all major highways in the Philippines, Shopping Malls, Gas Stations, Hospitals, Hotels and Restaurants to Villages and Barangays.

Features:– Touch screen Operation
– Turn by Turn Voice Direction
– Multi-Destination Search
– (Address, Street, Barangay, City Names, etc.)
– More Accurate Route Calculation
  (Fastest, Priority Hi-way, Avoid Hi-way, Shortest)
– Automatic Route Recalculation
– 2D / 3D Map Display w/ Auto Zoom Function
– Multilingual (English & Chinese)
– Picture Viewer
– MP3 Player

Flying Cars

Terrafugia Transition

 

 

The Transition, developed by former Nasa engineers, is powered by the same 100bhp engine on the ground and in the air. Terrafugia claims it will be able to fly up to 500 miles on a single tank of petrol at a cruising speed of 115mph. Up to now, however, it has been tested only on roads at up to 90mph. Construction, testing and certification of the Production Prototype will follow completion of the Proof of Concept’s testing program. First customer delivery of a Transition® Roadable Aircraft is expected to occur in 2011. 

 

 

The Skycar

 Developed by Moller International, The Skycar is the first and only feasible, personally affordable, personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle the world has ever seen.From your garage to your destination, the M400 Skycar can cruise comfortably at 275 MPH (maximum speed of 375 MPH) and achieve up to 20 miles per gallon on clean burning, ethanol fuel. No traffic, no red lights, no speeding tickets. Just quiet direct transportation from point A to point B in a fraction of the time. Three dimensional mobility in place of two dimensional immobility.  

 Cardozo’s Skycar 

 Designed by Gilo Cardozo, a british engineer the Skycar is powered by a modified 140bhp Yamaha R1 superbike engine with a lightweight automatic CVT (continuously variable transmission) gear-box from a snowmobile. It boasts Ferrari-beating acceleration on land, an air speed of up to 80mph and can swap between road and flight modes in minutes.Billed as the “World’s First Bio-fuelled Flying Car,” the Skycar is part parachute, part fan-powered swamp boat and part X-Bow. Whereas convertible car makers take about how quickly their vehicles can go from sunny exposure to rainy-day protection, Skycar designers like Gilo Cardozo tell us that conversion from “road mode” to “fly mode” and visa-versa will take three minutes.