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"Yes, alright, it's the freakin' future!"

"LIAR!!!"]]>Mar 18th 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/
Oh no google adwords on the windscreen HUD.

Can see it now, google "wants safe driving" offers car manufacturers free HUD integration tools. Ads not optional. Fanboys rally round cheering the benevolance of the spam king]]>Mar 18th 2010 6:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 19th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 4:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/
Also, they'd be opening themselves up to potentially being sued. Sorry officer, my windscreen didn't pick up that last 30 sign and was displaying 70 when I ploughed into this group of school children.]]>Mar 18th 2010 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/
Overall, I think the highlighting of the sign and building looks really bad, but the outlining of roads in foggy/rainy/etc conditions would definitely be an invaluable improvement.]]>Mar 18th 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/
You mean USB ports.]]>Mar 18th 2010 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/
+1990 to that when the first hoohar about impending HUD was announced]]>Mar 18th 2010 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/
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hope they do though. It kinda makes a whole lot of sense]]>Mar 18th 2010 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/
Too much talking, and not enough video on the HUD built into the windshield. The zooming-in on the speed sign was slow and incredibly annoying and distracting. It would probably cause an accident.

The "highlighting" of the edge of the road in the fog did not actually follow the contours of the road (showing it curving to the left when the road was straight).

Great idea, but I think they need to avoid making any press releases until they actually have something to show. The face tracking system isn't uniquely theirs, you can actually demo/buy similar software to use on your home computer with a web camera.
]]>Mar 18th 2010 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 5:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/
Always surprises me how low tech cars actually are]]>Mar 18th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/As someone who is currently working on detecting road objects in images (people, signs, etc.), I scoff at your comment.

Show me this system running in real time. Until then, I will call shenanigans on stills of road boundaries and painfully slow shrinking sign boundaries that are not even shrinking around a sign.]]>Mar 25th 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/But can you imagine the point of view of other people in the car? Everything will be moved from it's position and it will be freaking experience to sit in such car.]]>Mar 18th 2010 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/but it'd be much better if GM could focus on making less dismal, more reliable cars.]]>Mar 18th 2010 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/
That was my first thought as well. If this raises the cost of the actual windshield it's a huge blow to the technology. Where I live, a chip or crack in a windshield every couple of years is hardly uncommon.]]>Mar 18th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/
In all seriousness though, Jodosh you took the words right out of my mouth. I'd hate to see what one of these windshields will cost once a rock cracks it. There goes deductible free windshield repairs at your local safelite. I can see it now, ohh I'm sorry you'll have to go directly to Mercedes to get that replaced.]]>Mar 18th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/gm-shows-off-sensor-laden-windshield-new-heads-up-display-proto/Mar 18th 2010 10:33AM