Word: nissan
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Research into voice-recognition machines is particularly active in Japan. Nissan Motor Co. last October unveiled its model of a car for the handicapped that uses voice recognition to adjust the driver's seat and outside rear-view mirror, as well as to turn on the windshield wipers, lights and radio. A group of scientists at Tokyo University has developed a machine that allows an immobilized patient to change the position of his bed and order food and drink from a robot nurse...
...White House had to make still another awkward admission last week: Allen, a former consultant to Nissan Motor Corp., which manufactures Datsun automobiles, had met with Takase and the president of Toyota Motor Sales last March at a time when the Administration was deciding whether to seek lower import quotas for Japanese cars. The next day Allen attended a meeting with Reagan and Japan's Foreign Minister, Masayoshi Ito, to discuss import quotas. Worried about a possible conflict of interest, White House officials asked Allen to review his records for past contacts with Japanese businessmen...
...Nissan, the maker of Datsuns, presented a test vehicle that allows a handicapped person to drive literally without lifting a finger. The car is equipped with a "voiced word recognition system" that will carry out spoken commands from the driver. A disabled motorist can operate the lights and other instruments and adjust the driver's seat and rear-view mirrors simply by talking to the machine...
...Nissan explains that it is changing its name because of a corporate identity problem. The company has been borrowing on world money markets to finance its expansion, but President Takashi Ishihara discovered three months ago in London that many potential lenders were not aware that his firm made Datsuns...
...three chief financial backers. It was originally lengthened to Datson or "son of rabbit." But the word son had an unlucky connotation in Japanese, which was seemingly proved correct when a typhoon hit a Datson plant in 1933. Therefore, the company changed the marketing name to Datsun. Executives at Nissan are convinced that despite the worries of their dealers, a Datsun by any other name will sell as swiftly as ever...