Honda Motor Co Ltd has turned to Salt lake City, Utah-based Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp in a $15m deal to collaborate on the development of new simulation technology that all new motorcyclists in Japan will have to use before they are given a license. Some 15,000 motorcyclists have been killed in accidents in Japan between 1988 and 1995, and the Japanese government has passed a law that dictates all new riders must be trained on a simulator. Evans and Sutherland has just shipped 300 visual systems, based on its Liberty image generation technology. The systems have been engineered so they simulate motion, sound and vision, as well as traffic flow control.
