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From: Jeff Strickland on 6 Sep 2009 12:07
You don't have a GPS, do you?

When I plug in a destination for my GPS to take me to, it already puts up
the lane markers for the interstate interchanges and the exit ramp. As I
approach the interchange, the GPS puts up a lane marker telling me that I
need to be to the left or the right, and how many lanes are available to get
to the highway leading to where I am going.

No cameras on the front of the car or anything like that. The only thing
missing is the head-up display to project the GPS screen onto the
windshield.




"matrixxx09" <matrixxx09(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:e250efd6-d26d-428e-a723-caf02e4279fe(a)w36g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
> GPS navigation in the car, all in a HUD...
>
> Cameras on front of car feed back to sat system, which recognizes
> signs, the road itself, essentially the whole 'scene'. (The scenes
> are constantly updated in the database by the end users themselves).
>
> The instructions are then projected onto the windshield in the form of
> actual arrows appearing on the road itself (at least from the driver's
> viewpoint, like the 1st down line in football), the relevant road
> signs are 'highlighted', and so forth.
>


From: Fatter Than Ever Moe on 6 Sep 2009 14:09
Jeff Strickland wrote:
> You don't have a GPS, do you?
>
> When I plug in a destination for my GPS to take me to, it already puts up
> the lane markers for the interstate interchanges and the exit ramp. As I
> approach the interchange, the GPS puts up a lane marker telling me that I
> need to be to the left or the right, and how many lanes are available to get
> to the highway leading to where I am going.
>
> No cameras on the front of the car or anything like that. The only thing
> missing is the head-up display to project the GPS screen onto the
> windshield.
>
>
>
>
> "matrixxx09" <matrixxx09(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e250efd6-d26d-428e-a723-caf02e4279fe(a)w36g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>> GPS navigation in the car, all in a HUD...
>>
>> Cameras on front of car feed back to sat system, which recognizes
>> signs, the road itself, essentially the whole 'scene'. (The scenes
>> are constantly updated in the database by the end users themselves).
>>
>> The instructions are then projected onto the windshield in the form of
>> actual arrows appearing on the road itself (at least from the driver's
>> viewpoint, like the 1st down line in football), the relevant road
>> signs are 'highlighted', and so forth.
>>
>
>

Seems a good map and the GPS are the way to go. My GPS won't always
pick what I consider the best route, and lord help me if I take a short
cut and get off the route, the GPS will tell me for the next 10 miles
to U turn and when all I have is another mile or two to get back on the
route. But they show the darndest details, little roads that go to
nowhere and such. I think some of them are cow paths.
From: Michael Dobony on 6 Sep 2009 17:44
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:39:39 -0400, JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

> "matrixxx09" <matrixxx09(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e250efd6-d26d-428e-a723-caf02e4279fe(a)w36g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>> GPS navigation in the car, all in a HUD...
>>
>> Cameras on front of car feed back to sat system, which recognizes
>> signs, the road itself, essentially the whole 'scene'. (The scenes
>> are constantly updated in the database by the end users themselves).
>>
>> The instructions are then projected onto the windshield in the form of
>> actual arrows appearing on the road itself (at least from the driver's
>> viewpoint, like the 1st down line in football), the relevant road
>> signs are 'highlighted', and so forth.
>>
>
>
> Thousands of years, hopefully. Rode with a friend and her GPS a couple of
> weeks ago and the stupid thing kept saying "turn right", which would've put
> us in a field of alfalfa. The actual right turn was 2 miles away.

You get what you pay for. Better GPS systems should not do that, though I
sure they all have a few such errors. I had one mapping program that
failed to know that a street was 1 way.
From: Michael on 6 Sep 2009 18:45
On Sep 6, 9:07 am, "Jeff Strickland" <crwlrj...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> You don't have a GPS, do you?
>
> When I plug in a destination for my GPS to take me to, it already puts up
> the lane markers for the interstate interchanges and the exit ramp. As I
> approach the interchange, the GPS puts up a lane marker telling me that I
> need to be to the left or the right, and how many lanes are available to get
> to the highway leading to where I am going.
>
> No cameras on the front of the car or anything like that. The only thing
> missing is the head-up display to project the GPS screen onto the
> windshield.


That HUD is what he wants... plus highlighted road name signs.

Michael
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 7 Sep 2009 00:26
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:36:55 -0700, matrixxx09 wrote:

> GPS navigation in the car, all in a HUD...
>
> Cameras on front of car feed back to sat system, which recognizes
> signs, the road itself, essentially the whole 'scene'. (The scenes
> are constantly updated in the database by the end users themselves).
>
> The instructions are then projected onto the windshield in the form of
> actual arrows appearing on the road itself (at least from the driver's
> viewpoint, like the 1st down line in football), the relevant road
> signs are 'highlighted', and so forth.

Thanks for my first million...




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