Nissan Fuga to feature GPS cornering assistance
July 27, 2009 by Matt Brogan
The upcoming Nissan Fuga, set to be unveiled at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show, will feature all-new driver assistance technology to help the car navigate corners more safely.
The system works in conjunction the car’s in-built GPS navigation and ESC systems to instantaneously compare the vehicle’s actual path and speed with the driver’s intended path and a pre-determined safe cornering speed.
If the two information inputs do not match, the car’s ESC system applies the brakes individually at each wheel (in addition to regulating engine torque) to help make the car go where the driver intended.
The GPS integration allows the system to detect where the road is going ahead and further manipulate the car, while alerting the driver to slow down by pushing the throttle back against his or her foot.
The Nissan Fuga may appear in Australia if the Infiniti brand returns here as planned in a couple of years.
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If this works as well as the integrated Sat Nav in my car then we’re all doomed to become tree ornaments.
Does anyone else detect a hint of Citroen C6?
Remembering the American who successfully sued because he put his mobile home on cruise control then went to make coffee and crashed;they’ll need some sort of disclaimer when it’s marketed in the U.S.A. Otherwise, someone’s bound to think that they can nod off and the car will drive itself.
Fuga isn’t a very appealing name for a luxury car. It’s also a Kuga rip-off.
I agree with Casey – with the ageing US satellites and the non-military accuracy the “citizen’s band” is restricted to, the chances of the device knowing where you are more accurately than 15 metres is zero.
I can just see it – winding around a mountain pass and the system thinks you should be 5 metres to the left, which is 1000 metres above the winding stream far below ……..
A couple of Questions:
1) Civilian use GPS Accuracy is typically with in 5-10 Meters. I would love to know how this system can accurately work every time knowing this is a problem.
2) Apparently we could see Less GPS Satellites in the sky over the next few years as the company that own them aren’t maintaining as regularly compared to the past.
Could this option people purchase hypothetically become redundant given it may not be able to get a GPS lock? Would love to know ;) same goes for my and my poor Navman :(
Looks great. I wouldn’t believe it was the same company that made the Tiida unless I saw one of them in the flesh with a Nissan badge on it.
And a small message to the marketing department creators of, Fairlady Z and Fuga etc…please sack yourselves and give the job to someone who has a clue
Based on looks it should be renamed FUBAR.
Is it just me or did i miss something? If you need GPS assistance to turn a corner you shouldnt be allowed to drive!
In the list of useless technology this must rate in the top ten. Don’t you have to download new maps as new roads are built? What happens if you don’t and you try to drive down a road that according to the car’s GPS does not exist? It would be quite a shock to suddenly face plant the windscreen.
Car companies should realy stop waisting thier time on more useless technology and instead concentrate more on making their vehicles lighter, more efficient, more fun to drive and better to look at
Great looking car. Zero fun, zero sense.
This could never work.
There are too many variables for this to work as smoothly as they suggest.
In QLD for instance there are new roads every day with roadworks going on everywhere.
What happens if you are diverted by a stop go man to the other side for a detour???
Does the car correct your path and throw you right ontop of the poor lollypop man??
And thats just one variable
The only way this sort of self steer tech could possibly work effectivly is if they put special sort of cats eyes or paint on the line markings, then the car could use parking style sensors to ensure it refused to easiy cross a line unless the indicator was applied.
And to be honest, for the amount of money they spend mucking around with the GPS style arrangement, they could have probably cats eyed the worlds roads a few times over
Just another step on the way towards eliminating the driver.
How about diverting that money spent on R&D into driver training.
Do car companies car about the actual driving experaince anymore?
This is great, so now when mum and dad teach juniour to drive in a car with ABS, ESP, ESC, Traction Controll, Auto Brake Assist, auto parking, Auto transmission, GPS Steering. What actual driving skills can these poor kids ever hope to learn ?
Should call it FIGA :-)