About two years in the past, Honda constructed a pint-size electrical automotive referred to as the Shogo to assist ease a few of the stress and anxiousness of kids staying at hospital, on this case the Kids’s Hospital Of Orange County in California.

The plan was all the time to construct extra Shogos, the title derived from a Japanese phrase and meant to imply “hovering into the long run,” and Honda on Tuesday reaffirmed its dedication to the mission by saying plans to construct and ship a further 60 examples to ship to kids’s hospitals nationwide.

Two new examples have already been constructed and had been not too long ago delivered to Akron Kids’s in Akron, Ohio, and Riley Hospital for Kids in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Shogo is a ride-on automobile developed in-house by Honda engineers, and is being constructed by Honda’s U.S.-based HPD motorsports division, quickly to grow to be HRC US.

The autos are used to move younger sufferers to and from procedures and appointments inside the hospital. Honda stated the Shogo is designed for sufferers aged from 4 to 9. There is a steering wheel which additionally accommodates a cease and go controller. The highest velocity is roughly 5 mph, serving to to take care of security.

Extra options to assist make a hospital keep extra enjoyable embody a toy bucket within the entrance of the automobile for gadgets the kid wish to convey together with them, cup holders, a middle horn with completely different sound choices, and a customizable license plate slot to show the title of every rider.

Every Shogo additionally comes with its personal VIN, marked on aluminum plate hidden away on every chassis.