Honda continues to demonstrate with the evolution of his New adas systemwhy four out of ten motorcycles that are marketed in the world are precisely manufactured by the Japanese brand. His hunger for innovation, but above all to make a difference with the rest of the brands of the two -wheel world, they push it to individually develop technologies marketed by firms in the sector, which are already offered in competition models.
This is the case of the aforementioned ADAS system that showed its latest news in the past EICMA 2024, as they detail from Cycle World. However, it was not Honda who officially presented these advances, but Hitachi Astemo. The latter will be called only Astemo in April of this year, with 40% participation by both Honda and Hitachi. In turn, Astemo is the matrix of remote brands of the sector such as Showa, Nissin and Keihin. And you will ask yourself what does all this have to do with the Adas de Honda system …?
The Honda Adas system resorts to cameras instead of radar
For several years, Honda has been showing us its advances in what should end up being an innovative Adas system based on cameras. Unlike other reference brands in the sector, such as Ducati, KTM, Kawasaki, Yamaha or Moto Guzzi, the Japanese brand has preferred to develop its own Adas without resorting to companies specialized in this type of technologies, as is the case of Bosch.
In 2019 we told you how the Honda Goldwing could be the first to use active security cameras. To do this, it would incorporate two cameras that would work as our eyes, that is, the separation would allow to create a three -dimensional view with which to calculate distances and generate collision warnings depending on the relative speeds in addition to serving as a detection of the lane lines or see the traffic signals. Subsequently, Honda registered the patent of an artificial vision chamber in Africa Twin.
In the past EICMA 2024 entered the scene Astemo, showing the latest version of the Honda Adas system based on front cameras. The main idea is to work together with a good part of the electronic equipment of the motorcycle with the ADAS and, in turn, with other parts of the motorcycle directly linked to safety, such as braking or suspensions or the fuel injection system itself.
Honda would be raising the possibility of interacting with three different systems at the same time: ACC, camera and lidar (laser imaging detection and ranging). The latter is a device that allows to determine the distance from a laser emitter to an object or surface using a pulsed laser beam. All of them would be coordinated at the same time, offering real -time information and creating active safety alternatives at all times, thus following the path marked by the brand to reach a zero mortality in less than three decades.
