Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Noise-canceling tech, which has been available in headphones for years, is coming to cars. The new Toyota Crown Hybrid will come with three microphones that will work with three always-on active...
Engadget (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Filed under: Transportation As astutely pointed out by our friends at The Red Ferret Journal, it's a bit odd to see hybrid car makers cutting down on noise while electric car makers are looking to add it back in , but Toyota's silence isn't of the kill-a-biker sort. Toyota has worked internal noise-canceling into its new Crown hybrid, with microphones to pick up engine and road noise, and then speakers...
The Red Ferret Journal (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Toyota engineers have implemented noise canceling technology to quieted down their new Crown Hybrid car. The system uses three microphones and the same number of permanently-on active phase speakers to achieve the desired hush. It even works when the music system is playing, but all at head height (no quiet [...]
Top Speed (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Posted on 07.18.2008 15:59 by Matt Chambers Filed under: The Toyota Crown Hybrid is quite a player in the gas mileage department, but it throws all of that goodness away when you can't hear yourself think inside the cabin. This has become enough of a problem that Toyota has added Active Noise Control in the car's cabin. The new tech uses three special microphones on the interior of the car to detect...
Gadgets and latest digital toys (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Anyone who sat in a premium luxury sedan before will know that the cabin in there is whisper quiet, thanks to the engineers who ensure that there is an optimal amount of sound insulation against the outside world. After all, folks who can afford such rides often need a quiet place to think on their travels, planning the next business move. Toyota aims to make that lofty standard affordable to everyday...
Today's Review (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
The silent cabin of a BMW 7 series or a Mercedes S500 is affordable only to a few, now Toyota is planning to bring the same silent cabins to the masses with noise canceling speakers. Starting with the Crown hybrid which delivers as low as 1,000 to 3,000rpm when the vehicle is running at 20 [...]
übergizmo (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Anyone who sat in a premium luxury sedan before will know that the cabin in there is whisper quiet, thanks to the engineers who ensure that there is an optimal amount of sound insulation against the outside world. After all, folks who can afford such rides often need a quiet place to think on their travels, planning the next business move. Toyota aims to make that lofty standard affordable to everyday...
[MobileRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
The rotational frequency of Crown Hybrids engine is as low as 1,000 to 3,000rpm when the vehicle is running at 20 to 40km/h (12 to 25 mph). However, if no measure is taken, the muffled noise of about...
Winding Road (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Sumitomo Electric unveiled the world's first electric automobile powered by a high-temperature liquid nitrogen-cooled superconducting motor. The modified Toyota Crown Comfort was unveiled June 12 in Osaka, Japan, and will be on display at the Hokkaido Toyako G8 summit on June 19. Superconductors are materials that are able to carry electrical current without resistance. Although these materials have...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
The old Toyota Crown was all about the luxury , and it's pretty clear from this classic ad who the Crown's target market was back in 1971 Japan: stoic businessmen who wished to take their giggly young mistresses to the beach. We're disappointed that the Crown in this ad lacks the Super Saloon's curtains and trunk-mounted Cool Box, but you can see that it wafts along in utter silence. Well, except...
Gadgets Blog News (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
by Ryan Block , posted Jun 14th 2008 at 9:14AM Okay, the science nerds in the audience didn't exactly let us know that we've entered the age of commercial superconductors, but apparently Sumitomo Electric has built a Toyota Crown Comfort that's powered by a superconducting engine. Cooled by liquid nitrogen to -200° C, apparently all this madness nets you an extra 10% gain in distance over regular battery-powered...
Science Pal (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Sumitomo Electric has developed what is being called the world’s first automobile powered by a superconducting motor. The electric passenger sedan (a modified Toyota Crown Comfort), which is powered by a 365-kilowatt high-temperature superconducting motor cooled by liquid nitrogen, was unveiled in Osaka on June 12 and will go on display at the Hokkaido Toyako G8 Summit on June 19. Superconductors —...
Motor Authority (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
The Japanese-market-only Toyota Crown Hybrid first debuted as a concept at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show, and was revealed as a production model in April of this year. Now the luxury hybrid sedan is getting a cutting-edge pedestrian detection system for its Night View night vision computer. The previous model displayed the night vision information in [...]
Physorg (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
Considering that nighttime driving is often the most dangerous, the new Toyota Crown Hybrid could help make the roads safer by giving drivers a kind of nocturnal vision.
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Toyota's Crown Hybrid is getting one hell of a feature that will make the walkers of the world happy: night vision pedestrian recognition . Complex pattern recognition system cameras will recognize when pedestrians are walking alongside the road and put a nice yellow square around them on a camera view on the driver-side LCD instrument panel. The ideal driving speed for the system to work is between...
