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- Cockpit, Honda Accord (2nd generation)
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- Honda Accord (2nd generation), photo 1Cockpit · “83 Accord Hatchback dash” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Nakedicarus · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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- Honda Accord (2nd generation)Cockpit · “83 Accord Hatchback dash” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Nakedicarus · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Honda Accord (3rd generation)Cockpit · “Honda Accord 1985 Japan interior” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Kirakiraouji · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- Honda Accord (4th generation)Cockpit · “Honda Accord 1993 dashboard” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: MattiPaavola · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- Honda Accord (11th generation)Cockpit · “2023 Honda Accord interior” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: deathpallie325 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
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Summary
From December 1981 the second Accord could be fitted in Japan with the Electro Gyrocator, a navigation accessory that traced the car's route on a CRT beneath a transparent map.
Specifications
Cockpit
Instrument cluster
Midway through production a 120 mph speedometer replaced the original 88 mph unit.
Centre display
Honda Electro Gyrocator
A gas-rate gyro sensed changes of direction and a transmission-driven sensor measured distance. The car's track was drawn on a monochrome CRT under transparent map film, which the driver aligned and changed by hand.
Controls
Every Japanese-market grade had cruise control, with its switches on the steering wheel.
Facts
- Honda announced the system in August 1981, calling it the world's first automotive inertial navigation device.[2][1]
- It went on sale on 18 December 1981 in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka and Sendai as an accessory made exclusively for the new Accord and Vigor, priced at ¥299,000 installed.[2]
- The gyro worked by blowing helium across two heated wires.[1][5]
- Headlamp maker Stanley Electric, with its vacuum know-how, helped make the gas-rate gyro consistent enough for production.[1]
- The map films were transparent A5 sheets with a basic scale of 1:250,000.[6]
- The IEEE dedicated a Milestone to the Electro Gyrocator on 2 March 2017 as the first map-based automotive navigation system; Honda bases its own 'world first' claim on internal research.[4][3]