Mercedes shows off Splitview display, other dashboard perks in the 2010 S-Class

Sure, the cold metal exterior looks like a regular old car, but the 2010 S-Class from Mercedes-Benz has a fuzzy technological heart, including an abundance of readout displays and a Splitview screen. Quite like it sounds, the Splitview display offers up one view to the driver (like a map), while the passenger sees a completely different image (like a movie, or a picture of somebody looking at a map), and after hearing all about it for the past while, Mercedes is actually giving us a glimpse of it in an overly-dramatic promo video for the latest S-Class to clutter up the roads. Check it out after the break.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2009 8:24PM]

Available only on a Mercedes Benz.....for an additional $10,000.

[darkmax Posted Apr 15th 2009 9:30PM]

i was about to post that! lol

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2009 11:12PM]

How does it work? Is it like covered in little edges that have different pixels on either side, so its different from right and left?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 2:48AM]

I am surprised no one has noticed the fault int his picture yet.

The woman is watching a report on a soccer match (you can see the crests of the two teams, Hamburg and Wolfsburg).

Everyone knows women don't give a shit about soccer (at least here in Europe, where people are normal).

[Wwhat Posted Apr 16th 2009 8:02AM]

Actually for a while it looked like soccer had only women as fans, although now men stopped dropping off from watching it. It's healthy guys in their prime running around you know, I'm not sure why men would watch it actually.
Anyway women make a up a surprisingly big segment of those interested in europe.

[superhobo Posted Apr 16th 2009 8:02AM]

If you are really European, why do you call it soccer?

Everyone with half a brain knows it's the real football.

[Wwhat Posted Apr 16th 2009 10:28AM]

Perhaps because only suckers (sounds like soccer) and women watch it :)

[superhobo Posted Apr 16th 2009 10:40AM]

Wwhat? I wasn't talking to you.

[Wwhat Posted Apr 19th 2009 10:21AM]

:[ :)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 8:58AM]

What is this? you need some kind of small device with buttons on it to change the channel? nuh, not as cool as chrysler with its "iphone-like" touch capabilities.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 10:26AM]

Where are you from? The neck of the woods down south?
We in the civilized world call that remote control. Is a common thing here in the western hemisphere.
And if you have this Splitview screen, you don't wanna change Daddy's Bang Bros. show, while fiddeling around with a touchscreen to switch the channel to Teletubbies, right?

[bdav Posted Apr 17th 2009 1:48PM]

Seriously, any german car >> chrysler. No comparison.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 10:28AM]

Just my luck I would get the screen configured for a country with the driver on the other side of the car. Then the driver would see the movie and the passenger would get the maps. Darn, I hope that simple software change doest get made on my screen.

[bdav Posted Apr 17th 2009 1:49PM]

If its anything like the BMW5, you can turn the whizzy wheel thing 10clicks left, 10 right, 3 left, 3 right, hit it 2 times and get all the dealer options and diag.

[Wwhat Posted Apr 19th 2009 10:23AM]

Just clamp 4 to 6 mirrors in your car to fix it.