Gallery: Honda's Got a Whimsical Vision for the Self-Driving Future
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For the first leg of the trip, from Nairobi to Khartoum, Map created a motor home-safari truck hybrid called the Safari Drifter. It uses Honda’s robotic lawn mowers to cut tracks in the grass.
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The Island Hopper is a combination of a pedalo and a luxury yacht. It's an amphibious vehicle that takes travelers from Japan, across the southern tip of the Russian peninsula, Kamchatka.
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Map designed the vehicle to be completely powered by solar energy.
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The Jungle Jumper, for a journey through the Amazon, has a six-wheeled truck inspired by the Honda T360.
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The Desert Train is powered by Honda’s fuel cell technology. Map's idea is that any excess water the engine produces will get filtered back to into a water container at the rear of the vehicle.
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It's inspired by Honda’s four stroke generator and the Honda Motra, 50cc leisure bike.
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Most of the technology that's incorporated into the concept vehicles came from what Map saw, when the design team toured the Honda Collection Hall, outside of Tokyo.
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The Mountain Climber, on the other hand, has robotic legs that it can deploy from its underside, should it encounter debris from a landslide.
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The Tundra Sled is like a traditional dog sled combined with the Honda Uni-Cub scooter. Six drone wheels pull the vehicle along, and sensors will detect any dangerous cracks in the ice.
