Anton Yewchyn-Pawczuk

Honda Canada product specialist Anton Yewchyn-Pawczuk was heavily involved in bringing GPS navigation systems to the firm's Canadian products, and said if XM satellite radio were available here it may make it possible to offer a navigation system that provides real-time traffic warnings, as it does in many major U.S. cities with the new-for-2005 Acura RL."The first step is XM, and once we have that, then we could build a structure like [in the U.S.]."

This type of navigation system understands when and where there's a big hold up, and automatically reroutes you around the problem thanks to government and commercial traffic flow charts compiled by a third-party company and beamed through the XM signal, said Yewchyn-Pawczuk.

Honda Canada product specialist Anton Yewchyn-Pawczuk was heavily involved in bringing GPS navigation systems to the firm's Canadian products, and says that when XM satellite radio is available here, it may make it possible to offer a navigation system that provides real-time traffic warnings, as it does in many major U.S. cities.

'The first step is XM, and once we have that, then we could build a [real-time traffic warning] structure that supports this.'

This type of navi system understands when and where there's a big holdup, thanks to government and commercial traffic flow charts compiled by another company and beamed through the XM signal, said Yewchyn-Pawczuk, automatically rerouting you around the problem.

Anton Yewchyn-Pawczuk,

Honda Canada Inc.

"I like it because, when I'm driving and sometimes the phone conversation gets really quiet for whatever reason and I can't hear, I just turn up the volume," says Anton Yewchyn-Pawczuk, a public relations manager at Honda Canada.
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"At first, when we introduced it in 2004 vehicles, the questions we got at the customer call centre were around which manufacturers' phones were compatible," Yewchyn-Pawczuk says.

With more phones and converged devices, such as the BlackBerry, offered as Bluetooth-enabled, it's not as much of an issue.

"You just set it up once, all done by voice commands, and then, whenever you get in the car with your mobile, the car recognizes you and transfers the phone function to the car," he says.