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Honda Dream Drive — hands-on with a prototype for car infotainment

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Honda Dream Drive is a passenger information and entertainment experience that is meant to give us an idea of what being a car driver and a passenger will be like in the future. What Honda showed off for the first time a couple of years ago is now being tested as a way to integrate driver and passenger infotainment, commerce, services, and rewards dashboards.

It integrates both voice commands and touchscreens. I took a spin in a 2019 Honda Passport SUV recently with the prototype of Honda Dream Drive in Mountain View, California. I rode in the backseat to try out the entertainment options on an iPad, while the Connected Travel — which created the infotainment platform — and Honda team showed me how it all works.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.