Nissan's origins date all the way back to 1911 when Masujiro Hashimoto founded Kwaishinsha Motor Car Works and manufactured their first car, the DAT. It was that DAT due to which the company was renamed to DAT Motorcar Co. in 1925. Then about five years later, in 1930, Aikawa merged Tobata Casting's automobile parts department with DAT Motors. As Tobata Casting was originally a Nissan company, it marked the beginning of Nissan's automobile manufacturing career.
It is currently the sixth-largest automaker in the world, only behind General Motors, Volkswagen, Toyota, Hyundai, and Ford. Nissan has marketed vehicles under different names even, including Datsun. In 1999 it entered a two-way alliance with Renault, which now owns 43.4% of Nissan while it holds 15% of Renault’s shares. Nissan also produces a range of luxury models branded as Infiniti.
Now, zero gravity has forever been a hype among us feeble-minded humans ever since astronauts first returned from space. As a result, scientists and researchers all over the world have successfully managed to marvel at its effects. According to NASA, when a human’s body is in Zero-G, their spine takes a neutral position naturally, which reduces stress and the wearing of muscles. The good news is that now it is no longer necessary to travel into space to experience the same effects.
One can simply go to the nearest Nissan dealership and get themself a car that incorporates similar technology so they experience what it is like being in space without having to leave the convenience of earth’s gravity. The engineers at Nissan, over a decade of researching, were finally able to develop what they call Zero Gravity Seats. These change fundamentally everything about seats’ design in order to maximize comfort over longer commutes.
When a person is continuously sitting for long hours, the body naturally tends to lean in order to reduce stress. This causes the spine to slump which creates a lot of pressure on the lower back. That eventually adds up to more stress and fatigue of the muscles. In order to counter that effect, Nissan designed the Zero Gravity seats with 14 different pressure points that ensure your spine maintains its natural position at all times.
The unique design of these seats provides optimized support expanding from the lower back all the way up to the shoulders. By doing so, they ensure constant blood flow throughout. This results in the occupants feeling energized at all times, even after numerous hours of driving around. In order to make these seats as ergonomic as possible several real-world tests were conducted.
Nissan brought together a group of subjects, men and women of varying body types, height and weight, who underwent distance and overnight evaluations. A lot of biomechanical analysis was also made. The researchers took into account the levels of lactic acid in the blood of these subjects in order to confirm that the level of fatigue on muscles was actually reducing. So as mentioned before, yes, there is a lot of art in Nissan’s cars but all that is an outcome of the science involved behind it.
These Zero-Gravity seats were first introduced in the Nissan Altima for the model year 2013. As a result of which, it returned a much more satisfying ride even after long journeys. Looking at its success, those were then installed in many other Nissan cars that followed. Today the 2020 Rogue, Altima, Murano, Maxima and even the Titan all get the coveted Zero Gravity seats.
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