Honda's color-changing speedometer to drive out bad driving habits

So, you've a lead foot? What of it, right? Honda's hoping to make that bad little habit vanish by using the tried and true guilt trip method, or more specifically, the Ecological Drive Assist System. For starters, the technology's ECON Mode works with the CVT and engine to "support more fuel-efficient driving." The real kicker, however, is the color-based "guidance function" -- drive like a granny, your speedo lights up green, drive a little wilder, and things get a bit blue, and if you toss fuel economy to the wind and let 'er rip, expect a full-on blue screen and the voice of God to come thundering through your sound system instructing that those horses be held. The EDAS should appear in the automaker's Insight hybrid as early as Spring 2009, though there's no word if it'll be standard equipment on the rumored S3000.
[Via: Engadget ][Tag: CVT, eco-friendly, Ecological Drive Assist System, EcologicalDriveAssistSystem, ECON, EDAS, fuel economy, FuelEconomy, gas mileage, GasMileage, green, honda, hybrid, hybridcar, in-car, Insight, InterNavi, japan, safety, transmission, transport ]