The Honda V4 DNA has spawned a new bike worthy of its pedigree with the 2010 VFR1200F. A 172 horsepower 1237cc V4 engine sits beneath the modern bodywork of the new VFR and features Honda’s first throttle-by-wire system and the option of an automatic dual-clutch gearbox.
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Honda UX-3 Personal Mobility Device
Come one, come all, to the carnival of oddities that is Honda’s R&D division. Witness Asimo: the humanoid robot, and the tragedies tragedies that sometimes befall him. Shield your children from the assisted walking system that looks straight from the pages of science fiction. Gawk at the motorcycle with an airbag. And recoil in terror at the UX-3, a unicycle that balances itself.
Or laugh.
Taking a cue from the Segway, Honda’s crack team of Japanese engineers have cooked up their own version of personalized transport. And instead of two wheels, it uses just one.
Honda U3-X Personal Mobility Device Video
Honda has unveiled its experimental personal mobility system the U3-X. This new compact device can be guided around just by sitting on it and leaning forward, backward, or left to right. The U3-X features what Honda describes as the world’s first omnidirectional drive wheel (the Honda Omni Traction Drive System, or HOT Drive System) along with balance technology developed for Honda’s Asimo humanoid robot.
Honda Unveils U3-X Personal Mobility Device
Segway’s personal transporters may have (so far) failed to revolutionize personal transportion and take over the world, but that doesn’t mean that companies aren’t looking at developing and improving personal transportion in ways that don’t involve cars, bikes, or skateboards. Case and point: Honda has just unveiled its new U3-X personal mobility system, a new compact experimental device that users sit on and and guide around just by leaning forward, backward, or left to right. The U3-X features what Honda describes as the world’s first omnidirectional drive wheel (the Honda Omni Traction Drive System, or HOT Drive System) along with balance technology developed for Honda’s Asimo humanoid robot. Honda apparently sees the device as useful for getting around offices and other relatively controlled environments, rather than something someone would take out onto rough sidewalks, curbs, and trails, but the device would seem to have definite potential, perhaps for folks who are mobility constrained and for whom wheelchairs and other solutions aren’t practical.
Honda FCX Clarity Hydrogen Car
With gas prices in most parts of the United States well past $4.00 a gallon, and edging ever upward, interest in finding an alternative fuel source has never been higher. Ethanol, bio-diesel and gasoline-electric hybrids have all already shown up on the market in one form or another, but the auto industry’s darling, hydrogen fuel cells, have for the most part been confined to magazine covers and car expos.
That may change with Honda’s 2008 FCX Clarity, one of the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to reach the hands of consumer in the U.S. Beginning in July, the Clarity will move hydrogen technology out of car company labs and onto the streets, when customers begin leasing some of the first publicly available models.
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