Honda is now offering weather alerts from heavy rain to even earthquakes! The upcoming, all-new Japanese Honda Fit will have the ability to warn and alert drivers using this system in its navigation system.
The service is free but drivers pay mobile phone bills for relaying data.
E-mail warnings will be sent to a pre-assigned address when car with the system is in an area of a strong earthquake. If heavy rain is forecast on a route that is planned, icons of exclamation marks pop up on the monitor. Honda has also upgraded its map system so it updates in just a few minutes to download. Also, it collects information from individual Honda cars on the road. For example, in the new earthquake notification service, the system will be able to show which roads have been shut down.
The bad thing about all of this, it's only available in Japan.
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