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Supported car models:. The research team had used trial and error to produce various improvements in the system's eight basic parts. Among these was the discovery that fluctuating performance was the result of variations in ambient temperature, resulting in the use of a special chamber to control temperature and ensure consistency.
Meanwhile, Tagami was looking for a supplier to produce a stable-running gas-rate gyro, since doing so would require a high level of vacuum technology in order to increase the purity of the helium gas used. Tagami was leading development of a new technology, with great uncertainty as to whether it would become an actual product. Therefore, suppliers were understandably hesitant. After many rejections, Tagami's only hope was the headlight manufacturer Stanley Electric, which had superior vacuum technology.
He visited the company's research center every day and pleaded for support, and finally the director agreed. In fact, he really saved our lives.
Stanley and Honda thus began a collaborative effort to make the gas-rate gyro more consistent and accurate. That would not be an easy task, though. Later, the extent of that challenge became evident when the initial mass-production data showed a yield of only one in ten units. Some hurdles encountered by the research team had not been expected at all. For example, while the accuracy of the gas-rate gyro had improved and the system could at last be road-tested, one problem cropped up during that process.
The car had gone over the same route several times, but each time it deviated from the course at the same point. For the longest time they could not understand why. It has long since become a joke, but for a time they seriously considered whether there might be a secret military facility nearby. They even conducted a study with a field-intensity measuring device. However, all their efforts to identify the cause simply failed. Then, after every viable possibility had been considered, the team came to think the map could be wrong.
The company that had sold them the map was contacted. It was then that the team learned about the general inaccuracy of cartographic representations. For example, on a map of a , scale, a road of 10 meters wide is shown via a line only 0. However, in an area where many roads run close together, a number of thin lines will necessarily overlap, making the map difficult to read.
In such a case the roads are shown by ignoring actual distances to a certain degree. This practice, called "deformation," has long been common in cartography. It was eventually decided that maps would be created specifically for the experimental system.
However, the team was forced to make a detour because of this incident. A final evaluation was held at the beginning of , the requirement of which was that the system could send Kume from a meeting of automobile dealers in Suzuka back to his house in Tokyo. Once Kume had circled the location of his house on the map, the car left Suzuka at six o'clock in the morning. Of course, Tagami did not know the exact location of Kume's house. They simply headed for their destination, getting on and off the expressways according to directions given by Kume.
By the time they reached Tokyo, it was already after seven in the evening. The decisive moment was drawing near. Tagami was watching with eager anticipation as the indicator on the CRT got closer to the circle. Finally, he stopped the car. After a moment's silence, Kume replied, "Okay, you passed the test.
My house is right over there. The words resounded in Tagami's mind, as if to reward him for the completion of such a long and arduous journey. It was the birth of the first navigation system ever developed for use in a car. In August , the Honda Electro Gyrocator was introduced as a dealer option for the second-generation Accord. The new system was not just a shock to the automotive industry; it sent the electrical equipment makers running.
The strategy that had anticipated the future of technology, together with an uncompromising effort to create a reliable gyro and dedicated maps, had led to a new era in automotive capability. The development of next-generation navigation systems was initiated in January , five months after the release of the Gyrocator.
Three concurrent sub-projects were started under the main development theme, the objectives of which were as follows:. Honda had decided to run three projects concurrently in order to ensure its dominance in the field of navigation, especially with respect to other manufacturers. However, what would pave the way for Honda's future was the project dedicated to digital map navigation. Outlined in his mind was a direction that would transform the analog system to the digital format.
In fact, beginning in about Nakamura had briefly studied on a company scholarship at the Electronics Engineering Research Laboratory of the Industrial Engineering Institute, an organization operating under the Ministry of International Trade and Industry located in Tsukuba Gakuen City, Ibaragi Prefecture. During his study of optical-fiber gyro technology there, Nakamura had conceived the idea of a digital, map-based navigation system. The major difference between an analog map system and its digital counterpart is that the latter employs a function known as "map matching.
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