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head-up displays in cars too a lot of people even watching right now they're still right up there with flying cars in terms of reality and likelihood but I've got news for you they're coming I'm Brian Cooley with my top 5 reasons why I think you'll be glad to have a hood or head-up display in your next ride let's go number 5 eliminate the center console screen you heard me get rid of the center screen the head unit I put this low because yes even in the car business this is considered heretical talk but it is talk you see that big flat immovable LCD right in the middle of your car is kind of a big flat necessary evil for car designers if they can get rid of that thing and have more creative flexibility in the middle of the dash they'll do it I hope it just doesn't mean more cupholders though number 4 gesture control in the car one of the keys to powering future gesture control of our dashboard gear is to have a tightly integrated interface otherwise you're flailing your arms all over not sure what the car was expecting from you or getting confirmation of what it thinks you just flailed for a head-up display can be that easy channel number three information in context think about it all the information your car presents to you is basically in the wrong place speed isn't shown late on the side of the road navigations not shown laid out on the lane even your engine temperatures not displayed on the hood nothing else is such a digital Picasso in your life but HUD could make things live where they should be number two faster refocus every time you glanced at a gauge or a screen you have to dramatically change your eyes focal plane and your center of focus and then do it again when you look back out the windshield and keep doing it over and over and by the way it doesn't get faster as drivers get older a HUD lets your eyes stay in largely the same plane of focus and the same scope of you seeing everything number one is of course the Holy Grail eyes on the road because you can't react to what you didn't see HUD technology for the first time will let drivers see everything at once integrating the information driving with the optics of driving while you carry out the physical actions of driving in many ways the fact that cars were born before hug technology is kind of a sad accident of history more top 5 lists to wait the car lover go to see net on cars calm but on top 5