Auto Manufacturers Consider Computer for Your Car Windshield

By emeadows
December 12, 2012

General Motors, Daimler AG and other automakers are working on specially designed windshields that they hope will one day provide drivers with important information about their surroundings while on the road — and make driving safer.
“Using a technology known as augmented reality, which overlays real world images with digital ones, these windshields could display driving directions, text messages or impending hazards, all without requiring drivers to take their eyes off the road,” explains the Wall Street Journal.
“The goal is to reduce head-down time and maybe make driving a more interactive experience,” says Tom Seder, GM’s chief technologist for human machine interface.
The technology would fuse together sensors working outside the vehicle with ones working inside, tracking the driver’s eyes.
This could improve safety, writes WSJ, “…for instance, an augmented reality windshield could sense that a driver hasn’t seen a car merging into his or her lane or a sudden traffic slowdown ahead. The windshield might light up red or highlight the potential hazard to cause the driver to hit the brakes.”
But these windshields are likely at least five years away from actually appearing in vehicles and pricing remains unknown.

Topics: Auto, Automobile, Connected, GM, Trend, Windshield

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