The Blue Oval Has Gone Hollywood
Leaping into the world of virtual engineering, Ford Motor Company now employs the same type of motion-capture technology used to create films like “Avatar,” “Lord of the Rings” and “Shrek” to design vehicles that are more comfortable and enjoyable to drive. Motion-capture, a technology that digitally captures movement, is used by Hollywood computer animators and video game designers to make nonhuman characters appear more lifelike. Ford uses the technology to create realistic digital humans that engineers use to test vehicles in the virtual world. Ford is the only automaker to use motion-capture software in this way for vehicle design.
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The Blue Oval Has Gone Hollywood
Toyota: Comfort and Cool meet Convenience in the third generation, 2011 Toyota Sienna: the stylish, versatile minivan built for people with places to go
(TORONTO) – Canadian drivers looking for a minivan that’s as big on style as it is on versatility will find everything they need - including surprising affordability and more – in the all new, third generation, 2011 Toyota Sienna – unveiled this week at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show. The new Sienna continues to be the only vehicle in its segment that offers an all-wheel-drive option – ideal and surefooted for a changing Canadian climate. The new model will offer innovative firsts in versatility, refinement, comfort, and entertainment.
How Inflation Can Work in Your Favor
Remember that Reese’s Cup TV commercial from the ‘70s in which Robby Benson of Ice Castles fame is walking down the street eating peanut butter from a jar and collides with Happy Days’ Donny Most who is eating a chocolate bar? That’s right: they get two great flavors in one bite. Imagine that concept applied to automotive crash protection technologies and you’ll get Ford Motor Company’s latest safety innovation – the world’s first automotive inflatable seat belts, which combine attributes of traditional seat belts and air bags to provide an added level of crash safety protection for rear seat occupants.
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