Honda Opens Its Doors

摘要

Honda Motor Co.'s future is quietly being forged in a secretive lab in Mountain View, California. From this 35,000-square-foot taupe-colored office park, Naoki "Nick" Sugimoto, a 55-year-old Honda veteran, scouts for the worlds best tech partners. Two recent projects from Sugimotos lab-a car display enhanced with holograms and an "optical" microphone that dramatically improves speech recognition by reading a speakers facial vibrations-wowed crowds of auto and tech enthusiasts at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.