Car navigation system has video playback function
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Mitsubishi Electric’s new car navigation system features a touch screen with high definition video playback options. The system utilizes so-called “optical pickup” technology to reduce interruptions due to jarring and vibrations.
Mitsubishi says the system also produces very little heat, and weighs approximately 1.6 kilograms. Price: 105,000 yen.
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kaminarioyaji
WTF!?!? As if there isn't enough for drivers to be easily distracted by already (Keitais, huge TVs by the roadside advertising, etc, etc).
What I don't understand is how, in this day and age, when we clearly have the technology to be able to do it, the screen that the driver can see doesn't automatically switch off when the vehicle is in motion. I understand that these are often bought to entertain kids in the back, but the driver should have their eyes fixed firmly on the road only.
Profits before ethics once again in Japan.
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ExportExpert
Video playback ? way behind the times should be blue ray or dvd now not video, this thing must be big in the dash to accept video's.
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lrodriguezsosa
Always with excellent new consumer products. Ganbatte Nippon!
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PeaceWarrior
ExportExpert, if you click on the image, you will be able to see that it is blu-ray.
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electric2004
Kaminari:
Actually, a carnavi has to be connected to the handbrake signal. This mean you can operate all functions, when the handbrake is active - e.g. the car is expected to be stopped.
Also there is a tacho-signal (e.g. the speed-pulse) and usually when motion is detected there, some functions of the navigation system are automatically disabled.
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kaminarioyaji
Electric2004:
I think that's true of cars that come fitted with car navi when bought new, but you can go to somewhere like Donkey Quixote and pick one up and have a mechanic fit one, and you can basically bypass that system (and the law).
Next time you're on a bus, especially at night, just glance into some passing cars, you'll see many with the TV on.
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electric2004
kaminarioyaji:
Having installed a carnavigation by myself in my car and in my wife's K-Car, I understand what you mean. In my car, I connected the navi to the handbrake signal. In my wife's K-Car the handbrake signal was not easily available - because her Moco has a 2nd footbrake. However now it does not matter so much, as the TV system has changed recently to digital and the navi systems I have still were designed for analog TV.
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