Augmented Reality on a Road Trip

Several major automobile manufactures are researching and developing in-car systems that project data on the windshield of cars. Although at first it seems unintuitive, this is mainly being done to increase the safety of being on the road, as people take calls, text, and operate navigation on their phones already, which is much worse than looking at that information on the windscreen and using voice to control its functions. It is basically more safe for the same reasons that Google Glass; this is just the car version.

BMW, Toyota, Mercedes, and GM are the main firms looking into this, and all of them have different versions of what information they see as being useful to the driver. Mercedes created software that gives details about points of interest if you point at them through the windshield of your car. GM wants to help drivers stay in their lane on a foggy road, and Toyota is developing a way to zoom in on objects outside your car. This peaked my interest, as I remember discussing driverless cars as a class one day. Although there have been any advancements in that field, particularly by Google, I still think they are some time away, so for now, I can't wait for my driving experience to be more like a video game playing out in real life.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121130-cars-turn-to-augmented-reality/1