New technologies included a Sideswipe-Preventing Communication System, which exchanges data with approaching
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| Mazda showed off its Smart Idling Stop System, which shuts a car's engine down when at idle in order to save on fuel and reduce emissions. (Photo: Mazda Canada) |
vehicles, that would have to be using the same system, and then alerts the driver to their presence using a display and audible warning. Mazda's Integrated Vehicle Dynamic Stability Control "monitors inputs received from the accelerator pedal, steering wheel, and brake pedal and uses them to determine the vehicle behaviour desired by the driver," or so says the automaker's press material. "The computer also uses data from sensors to determine the extent to which the vehicle's actual behaviour differs from the desired behaviour. Whenever the calculation results indicate
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| Mazda also had its version of G-Book Alpha telematics on display, preparatory to launching with its new MPV next year. (Photo: Mazda Canada) |
the risk of a skid, the computer effects control over the brakes and engine and actively countersteers by exercising control over an electric power-steering system." So in other words, if this happens to you, you're in way over your head and you won't be complaining about too much electronic intervention in modern cars.
Next to its Smart Idling Stop System, which shuts a car's engine down when at idle in order to save on fuel and reduce emissions, Mazda also had its version of G-Book Alpha telematics on display, incorporating the same name given to a similar Toyota/Lexus system (see automotive news section for April 20, 2005: New Toyota Telematics System to Battle GM's OnStar?). Mazda's G-Book Alpha system will launch with its new MPV next year.
