1981 Nissan Drive Guide system [JDM Trivia #6]
Channel: banpeinet
Date: 06/01/2016

Welcome to the JDM Trivia number six!

This weeks trivia is all about the 1981 Nissan Drive Guide system which was basically a crude navigation system for the Nissan Skyline DR30 and the Nissan Gazelle and Silvia S12. Nobody took a wild guess at the teaser from last week, but I'll get to the purpose of the antenna in this episode!

In 1981 Nissan implemented their own Nissan Drive Guide system that was a lot less complex than the Honda Electro Gyrocator. All the driver had to do was set the direction and the distance and the Drivers Guide system would lock on its target. It would display in 16 directions around the vehicle where to go and how far you actually are from the target. Nissan created this system using both a directional sensor and a velocity sensor. The velocity sensor was obviously linked to the speedometer and the directional sensor measured the movements compared to the earth magnetic field. Let's just advanced compass in laymen-terms. With the combination of these two a microprocessor continously calculated the distance and the new direction to drive to.

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