Honda Civic Dashboard 2006

September 3, 2005 at 6:42 pm · Filed under 2006 Honda Civic, Cars

Honda’s interior for the 2006 Civic is screaming unorthodox. You thought centre dashboard meters were weird, but Honda has implemented a dual-tiered dashboard for this incarnation of the Civic.

The top tier or “level” features a digital speedometer, a fuel gauge and an engine temperature gauge. Honda says putting it at the very top closest to the windshield minimizes eye movements for the driver, letting them focus on the road more often. For the Civic Si, the top level also has an LED shift light which starts to blink red from 7400rpm onwards until the 8000rpm redline where it shines a solid amber.











The lower level is in the normal position just behind the steering wheel and it features a tachometer (RPM meter), odometer, warning indicators and in some models, a temperature gauge.












For the Civic Hybrid, the upper level also features fuel economy/mileage calculations and the lower level shows battery statuses.












For top-end models, the centre dashboard console also includes a 6.5″ LCD TFT touch screen which opens and closes to allow access to a single-slot CD player and a memory card reader which supports SD cards, CompactFlash cards and Flash ATA memory cards. The audio system can play MP3 and WMA files from these cards. You can control the navigation system and the audio system via joystick or buttons or via touching the options on the screen since it is a touch-screen.

HUD

The car dashboard. You will spend most of your time as a car owner facing it. Many car companies have been trying to revolutionize the way dashboard information is presented to you. Honda has it’s split deck design with 2 levels of meters. Some companies position the dashboard meter cluster in the middle like the Toyota VIOS, Nissan X-Trail and even our Perodua Kancil.

I kind of like Citroen’s approach with the Citroen C6’s dashboard. Nice and compact display shows indicators, RPM, speed, gear shift position and fuel level in digital form, and speed is projected on the windscreen via a heads-up display.

CEBIT 3D Screen example

For our project, we could use this technology for different levels for the dashboard symbols maybe.

"3 dimensional display, its like.. looking into a box with objects in, but there aren’t really a box(it's just flat foil) cause it's an illusion.."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-KNAhW2DmM&NR=1

Technology of The Future- Philips Simplicity 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C075FloBPHE&NR=1

Customizable OLED Phone

I think it is just a concept so far, anway interesting to see. Checkit out here:

www.chriskujawski.com

Aim:

Our solution should help driver to reduce the informationsstream, so driver can concentrate more on driving and has less to process during driving, so is less distracted from this big mass on informations. How to undertake some tasks for the driver?
What about improving the reactiontime between car and pedestrian?

The time between
action (pedestrian on the road) and
reaction (driver brakes) is too long
plus the time until the reaction, which might dont be in time ( when the driver is for instance distracted by sth.)


Solution:

The car should overtake the reaction of a driver before the accident happens and before the driver reacts (because reactiontime too long).

The communication between the car and the pedestrian should be more faster and more direct and influence directly the brakes for instance.


How:

Combination out of activ RFID chips and ISA
(RFID Radiofrequence-Identification ISA Intelligent Speed Adaption)


each pedestrian has a RFID chip ( doesnt matter where, bag, clothes...)




















each car has a RFID Reader, which detects pedestrians in a certain area around a car (for instance 50m distance) and gives a signal to a car, which is ready to react (reduce the speed or brake) additionally there is an acustic and visual signal, which informs the driver.