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  Nissan's New 'Engineering Center' to Develop Green Technologies -- Tech-On! 

  http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20071009/140363/

  Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. has announced the completion of construction of its "Engineering Center," which was began within the Nissan Technical Center in October 2004. Nissan will develop technologies based ... on its "Nissan Green Program 2010" medium-term environmental action plan aimed at reducing CO 2 emission. Positioning the Engineering Center as one of its investments for future that Nissan addresses in line with its long-term prospects, roughly 90 billion yen will be invested for the enhancement of power train development at the Nissan Technical Center and the Nissan Advanced Technology Center completed in May 2007, the reform of Nissan Design Center and other R&D centers. Along with a plan to use the Engineering Center primarily as an automobile development-related office, Nissan provided rooms where engineers and visitors can communicate while directly interacting with automobiles and components and connected the Engineering Center with the Product Planning and Design Center via a wa   [More...] [Less...]

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  Nissan's aerial view technology makes parking a cinch - International Herald Tribune 

  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/12/business/AS-TEC-Japan-Nissan-Easy-Parking.php

  TOKYO : Parking in tight spaces is a cinch with a new display from Nissan showing a panoramic bird's-eye-view of what's surrounding a car — a feature that the Japanese automaker says is a first for commercially ... mass-produced vehicles. Using digital cameras, Around View Monitor displays an aerial view of the car on a dashboard screen. The option will be available in the Infiniti EX35 luxury model, going on sale in the U.S. in December, and the Elgrand minivan selling in Japan later this month, the Japanese automaker said Friday. Tokyo-based Nissan Motor Co. said pricing for the option was still undecided. Other automakers have similar technology using digital cameras to show images of a driver's blind spots, but Nissan's system puts together the images to create the entire aerial view, not just what's in front or the rear. Images from all sides are shown the way they appear from above — with the vehicle displayed as a computer graphic in the middle of the screen. Toyota Motor Corp. has   [More...] [Less...]

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