The car window as an information system
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:02 am
When it comes to exciting developments in the automotive industry, you probably don’t think about the car window. Unless it’s about the way a laminated windshield is manufactured. However, a lot is going to happen in the near future. The windshield as we know it is a thing of the past. In this article, you can read what we can expect from the new possibilities that the windshield has to offer us in the future and what the concrete advantages are.
Car manufacturers have been placing all their gauges and meters on the dashboard for decades. This is not the most logical place, because we have to take our eyes off the road when we are driving. We do this to look at the fuel level, the driving speed and the route that our navigation system indicates. This often results in dangerous situations.
This is a thing of the past with the HUD system. HUD stands for Head-Up display. This also immediately reveals what it does: a display where you can keep your head up. The display projects all the important information onto the windshield. This allows you as a driver to simply keep your eyes on the road, while receiving all the information you need.
There are already applications for the HUD, but these are often systems that work with projection from a mobile device onto a small part of the windshield. Before the HUD systems can really be used, more testing and development must take place. For example, the system must not distract the driver and the driver's field of vision must not be limited according to the RDW manual .
The car window as a navigation system
If you extend the HUD line even further and add the canada telegram data developments in the field of Augmented Reality , then it becomes really exciting. The windshield is then used as an interactive data screen that does more than the average navigation system. Not only is the route displayed on the windshield, but by using real-time information, the windshield is also constantly online.
Handy, because traffic information, accidents and roadworks are viewed and calculated by the navigation system. Based on this, the route is adjusted if there is a better alternative.
This becomes even more interesting when you look at the car tires that are now being shown as prototypes by tire manufacturers such as Goodyear:
If both the windshield and the average car tire can collect and interpret data, then much more real-time information is created that can be used directly while driving. Together with the investments in information systems within the infrastructure, this provides a sea of information. This can make mobility more efficient, sustainable and faster in the future. In addition, this is a requirement if we ever want to have the autonomous car , because it needs this data to be able to drive.
Car manufacturers have been placing all their gauges and meters on the dashboard for decades. This is not the most logical place, because we have to take our eyes off the road when we are driving. We do this to look at the fuel level, the driving speed and the route that our navigation system indicates. This often results in dangerous situations.
This is a thing of the past with the HUD system. HUD stands for Head-Up display. This also immediately reveals what it does: a display where you can keep your head up. The display projects all the important information onto the windshield. This allows you as a driver to simply keep your eyes on the road, while receiving all the information you need.
There are already applications for the HUD, but these are often systems that work with projection from a mobile device onto a small part of the windshield. Before the HUD systems can really be used, more testing and development must take place. For example, the system must not distract the driver and the driver's field of vision must not be limited according to the RDW manual .
The car window as a navigation system
If you extend the HUD line even further and add the canada telegram data developments in the field of Augmented Reality , then it becomes really exciting. The windshield is then used as an interactive data screen that does more than the average navigation system. Not only is the route displayed on the windshield, but by using real-time information, the windshield is also constantly online.
Handy, because traffic information, accidents and roadworks are viewed and calculated by the navigation system. Based on this, the route is adjusted if there is a better alternative.
This becomes even more interesting when you look at the car tires that are now being shown as prototypes by tire manufacturers such as Goodyear:
If both the windshield and the average car tire can collect and interpret data, then much more real-time information is created that can be used directly while driving. Together with the investments in information systems within the infrastructure, this provides a sea of information. This can make mobility more efficient, sustainable and faster in the future. In addition, this is a requirement if we ever want to have the autonomous car , because it needs this data to be able to drive.