Its OK if you simply install a sweeping LED array on the front of you car (like KITT in the 1980's) to ... ahem... make the other drivers around you aware you are not paying attention! lol.<br><br clear="all">Wes<br>---<br>
God help those who do not help themselves.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 16:46, Gregg Wonderly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregg@wonderly.org">gregg@wonderly.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>This is an interesting question. Which will be less distracting, or move your eyes less off the road, a HUD on you windshield in front of you, a VGA display in your rear view mirror, an iPad propped up on top of your center dash area, or something else?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am pretty sure that there really should be no place besides looking in front that would be safer for you, your passengers and the drivers around you.</div><div><br></div><div>If APRS info becomes that much a part of driving, we have perhaps missed out on what drivers roles are.</div>
<div class="im"><div><br></div><div>Gregg Wonderly</div><div>W5GGW<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Jun 19, 2010, at 8:52 AM, "Wes Johnston, AI4PX" <<a href="mailto:wes@ai4px.com" target="_blank">wes@ai4px.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I just saw a Modern Marvels the other night about police pursuits. One of the cars has a HUD display on the windshield that was rather simple. It was a piece of plexiglass hung from where the sunvisor goes and an LCD projector mounted where the dome light is located. The projector sends a left/right reversed image to the semi-reflective plexi screen. This seemed rather impractical until the advent of small LED projectors for laptops like this one <a href="http://www.personalprojector.co.uk/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.personalprojector.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.personalprojector.co.uk/</a> . <br>
<br>Wouldn't this be the hot setup to have a copy of UIview or Xastir running right in front of you in the car?<br clear="all">Wes<br>---<br>God help those who do not help themselves.<br>
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