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Introducing the Windscreen of the Future

For years now, we've been trying to envision how the cars of tomorrow will look and feel like. Since we live in a time when everything seems to be on fast-forward, imagining a radical change in a car doesn't translate into a concept of the year 2050-2060, but more like into a car that might be here by the end of the decade.

Most of the time, trying to imagine a car of tomorrow yields just that: an entire car. Most of the concepts we see are concept of whole cars, impersonal, rendered, glacial. But if you could stretch you imagination and envision a car in its component parts? Take them one at a time and build a car in your mind. Start with the windscreen. And use Autoglass' version of the future windscreen.

Taking into consideration all the gadgets that make up today's cars (starting with the GPS and ending with the pedestrian alert systems), Autoglass envisioned a windscreen that would comprise them all.

What if the windscreen would be just a giant head-up display, with all the information you'd need displayed at eye level, in real time and with contextual coloring? Mileage, temperature, speed, points of interest (with steak and chips prices included), the gear you're in, traffic cameras... Everything, in real time, easy to read and interpret.

The exciting part about all the wonders you are about to see in the video below is that this type of windscreen has a big chance of becoming a reality. Perhaps not in 2020, when Autoglass tells us this video might get shot, but still...

PS. Even in the future, glass will still shatter.

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About the author: Daniel Patrascu
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Daniel loves writing (or so he claims), and he uses this skill to offer readers a "behind the scenes" look at the automotive industry. He also enjoys talking about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
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