New Car Heads-Up Display To Be Controlled By Hand Gestures, Voice Commands

Lucas123 (935744) writes "A new company has just opened a crowdsourcing campaign for a heads-up display that plugs into your car's OBD II port and works with iPhones and Android OS-enabled mobile devices via Bluetooth to project a 5.1-in transparent screen that appears to float six feet in front of the windshield. The HUD, called Navdy, works with navigation apps such as Google Maps for turn-by-turn directions, and music apps such as Spotify, Pandora, iTunes Music and Google Play Music. Using voice commands via Apple's Siri or Google Voice, the HUD can also write, read aloud or display notifications from text messages or social media apps, such as Twitter. Phone calls, texting or other applications can also be controlled with hand gestures enabled by an infrared camera."

Comments

Any bets on how long before the plug is pulled?

[mark-t]

If a display is not integrated into the car itself, and in particular where the *sole* purpose of a display should be to assist in driving the car safely, then it's going to be considered a distraction from driving, and therefore not going to be legal to use while driving.

a great technology for the United States.

[nimbius]

As an american ive been using hand gestures and voice commands in traffic for years now.

Ummm ...what?

[gstoddart]

other applications can also be controlled with hand gestures enabled by an infrared camera

So, instead of people taking their hands of the steering wheel to hold onto their phone, they're going to take them off the steering wheel to control their stuff with gestures???

Seriously people, are you actually designing something for people who are driving cars?

Here's a suggestion, save your damned text messages and social media updates for when you're not bloody well driving.