Tag: NISSAN

Are you a fan of the motorcycle's ability to lean into turns but just don't feel safe riding with your body exposed like that? Well, a new concept car from Nissan has you covered, literally. According to Engadget, the Nissan Land Glider features two-in-line seats and the ability to lean at a 17-degree angle around turns. At just 3.5-feet wide, the electric car can maneuver like a bike, but it's ...

The iPhone may not be as big in Japan as it is in the States, but that hasn't stopped Nissan from developing an app that shows the residents of Yokohama City, Japan how to drive better. The new program is part of a trial service called E1 Grand Prix. Here's how it works: The app connects to your car's On-Board Diagnostics (OBD), and extracts information in real-time to determine how efficiently ...

Engineers at Nissan Motor in Tokyo have developed robots that mimic the collision-avoiding behaviors of schools of fish, with the hope of one day incorporating the technology to make cars safer. The fat, adorable, quizzically Japanese-looking creatures roam in groups of seven and escape crashes by sharing information from laser range finders with one another via radio, allowing the group formation ...

Nissan's Nuvu is making its debut this week at the Paris motor show, and while it isn't the all-electric vehicle that the company has promised for 2010, it's a step in the right direction. Resembling something from a Pixar movie, the Nuvu has that special mix of "vaguely futuristic" and "somewhat impractical" that we look for in a concept car: it's less than ten feet long, seats three ...

Nissan, Sharp, and Japanese cell phone provider DoCoMo are working to lighten the load in your pockets. The three companies have developed a cell phone that integrates Nissan's Intelligent Key system. The Intelligent Key system allows you to unlock and lock your car as well as start and stop your engine wirelessly, and is currently installed in almost one million cars around the world. The cell ...

While Nissan hasn't quite cut drivers out of the equation all together (yet), it is making some considerable progress in controlling just how they drive, including preventing folks from driving drunk and, with its new ECO pedal, preventing people from driving inefficiently. To do that, the pedal simply pushes back against the driver's foot when it detects wasteful acceleration, which Nissan says ...

A Canadian group of car enthusiasts joined forces to conduct what was essentially an "open source" search for a Nissan Skyline GT-R stolen from a specialty dealer in Calgary. The dealer-owner posted word of the stolen car on a blog for Canadian car fanboys, and the thread got a response that did more than lament the crime. Fellow enthusiasts went into action, with the first one of them ...

In a sure sign that technology is working for us, Nissan has figured out how to make parallel parking easier. The company's new Around View Monitor, available this month in Japan's new Elgrand mini-car/van thing, synthesizes the images taken by the car's cameras (located on all four corners of the car) into a single image. The result? A top-down view of your vehicle, helping you do things like ...

Why is it that the Japanese always get the coolest concept cars? Take a look at this follow up to Nissan's 2005 oddball concept car called Pivo. The ultra-compact vehicle can rotate its bubble-shaped cabin and wheels independently to facilitate squeezing into those hard to manage parking spots. It has a single front-access door while llithium ion batteries power motors in the wheels. Coolest of ...

While looking like something straight out of 'Blade Runner,' Nissan's Mixim is looking hot. It's one of the few electric vehicles shown by one of the major auto manufacturers, and after the amazing Who Killed the Electric Car? effectively proved, electric cars could very well become our primary mode of transportation...if the powers that be let it happen. The hatchback weighs just 2100 pounds ...

After a series of drunk driving accidents in Japan last year, Nissan decided it had to do something about the epidemic of inebriated motorists. The company considered a whole host of options including Breathalyzer-like devices. Finally, yesterday the company unveiled its anti-drunk driving initiative: Every time you turn the car on, the optional GPS displays a message reminding you not to drink ...

Those metal keys jingling in your pocket or purse are so early aughts. These days it's all about electronic "smart" keys, which unlock your car and even let you start it up without having to go through the hassle of reaching into your pocket or sliding anything into the ignition. But all of this slothful convenience doesn't come without warnings, according to Nissan. The company is claiming that ...