Nissan unveils Pivo 2 with robot, $70,000 GT-R super car at 40th Tokyo Motor Show 2007
This is not aci-fi dream anymore!
Nissan introduced at Tokyo Motor Show 2007 its new perspective on the future: a car whose driver won’t ever be alone.
Nissan has probable inspired its new car from an old sci-fi movie or book, where the driver was really helped by a talkative or moody robot. But enough with all these scenarios! The robot has Just been invented, and not only imagined, as it has even got a name: Pivo-kun.
Nissan Motor has mounted Pivo-kun in the dashboard of the company’s Pivo 2 concept car; it will have a highly important safety role, as it will use camera for example to determine whether the driver is under stress or just tired.
In this case, Pivo-kun will suggest him or her to take a rest. “We have data that happy drivers’ accident rates are drastically lower than depressed ones, so this robot stays there to make sure the driver is happy always,” says Nissan Motor’s chief designer Masato Inoue.
“This guides the driver and sometimes cheers up the driver. For example, if the driver is irritated it the driver is irritated it might say ‘Hey, you look somehow angry. Why? Please calm down.’
Masato Inoue says that Pivo-kun won’t be an item of fine technique and that there is a conscious voice behind this robot. This way, the chance that Pivo-kun could get hurt by the drivers themselves is decreasing. “This makes a kind of intimate relationship between the car itself and the driver.” Masato Inoue added.
Nissan also launched GT-R, a new multi-dimensional performance machine that lives up to the concept of “an ultimate super car for anyone, anywhere, at anytime”.
The Nissan GT-R features a newly developed Premium Mid ship package, including the world’s first independent transaxle 4WD developed independently by Nissan.
Nissan GT-R offers advanced high performance for secure and enjoyable driving by minimizing the effects of climatic, road condition or driving technique limitations.