High-tech windshield enhances drivers view
A windshield from General Motors uses a camera, lasers and infrared sensors to enhance what’s happening on the road so aging drivers with vision problems can see more clearly.
GM says the new windshield will make objects stand out that could otherwise go unnoticed.
The technology enhances just a few objects in the dirvers view.
“You can see the difficulty of implementing technology like this,” GM researcher Thomas Seder said.
“They say, `That would be very frustrating or confusing, to have things on my windshield. I need to see the world,’ ” Seder said. “I’m enhancing the world. I’ll take a feature that should be important to you, like the edge of the road, and paint a line over the real edge.”
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