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SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Via Springwise a HUD (Heads Up Display) for car GPS units that draws the line of where to drive on your windscreen. It’s called Virtual Cable.

The makers of Virtual Cable say they have a better solution. The New York City area start-up has designed a heads-up dashboard display that virtually ‘paints’ a highly visible line above the road ahead. The line curves precisely where a driver using an in-car navigation device would normally be instructed to turn. Follow the line till you reach your destination. It’s that simple.

I love technology like this. Love it. But, I’m worried about this one. You just know that some unsuspecting fool will follow the HUD not the road and driving into an oncoming car or sit in the wrong lane as the HUD told them to.

Especially at night… isn’t this plain scary? If there’s problems with people following the tail lights of the car infront, what behaviours will this invoke?

At least tail lights are a safe bet.

The upside to this is, the driver does not have to focus on a small GPS map on the dashboard.

I disagree with this as a safety point…

The driver does not have to interpret audio commands or translate map symbology.

Still I’d love to try this and see it for myself…

Do check out the videos of it on their website and post your opinion on safety below.

-Robin-

(Image Credit: From the MVS website.)