"Samsung's Smart Windshield"

[redrider90]

WT* are they thinking. Boy is this thing is trouble. 

"Samsung's Smart Windshield is the worst good idea" from the BBC
http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160329-samsung-smart-windshield-the-worst-good-idea

[rodekyll]

Full-banner pop-up ads coat the windscreen as you miss the apex of the descending radius hairpin.  What could go wrong?

I was taken aback when I got a cockpit tour of a737 and was shown the heads-up display.  It's petty much the same mickey-mouse setup described here -- except that the data projected onto the windshield from over the pilot's shoulder has a popup blocker so it only shows the good stuff.
J/K.  the 737 actually does project useful stuff.

Didn't Citroen do heads-up some decades ago?

[boatdetective]

The liability exposure is so gargantuan, I have no clue how this would ever make it to market.

[Wayne Orwig]

The liability issue of texting while driving is huge.
Doesn't slow many people down from doing it.

Didn't someone just start selling a helmet with an integrated HUD already?

[Kent in Upstate NY]

The final line..."That initiative is called Launching People, to which we cannot resist appending “right over their handlebars.”"

[Tom H]

There was a Caddie with a HUD and FLIR?? on the windshield when GM took over Hughes A/C years ago. I don't know if that's still around or not?

Tom

[Guzzistajohn]

I wonder if a big screen is available for the ape hanger crowd?

[pikipiki]

I have an android integrated head unit in my car. I believe it's dangerous in a car and I can't see how it could be anything other than more dangerous on a bike.

The problem is whilst simple radios or cd players were consistent in working or not working or being crackelly or whatever this new tech is not like that.
I will be listening to radio when all a suden the left speaker will stop working? I can then check the balance and face a whole lot of other wierdnes with left becoming right and right becoming nothing at all. I can stop turn everything on and off and all will work till the satnav glitches out and I haven't got time to go into that. Ok you laugh get a new head unit under warantee but no is I the car or is it the same phone software or is it the perfect phone manufacturer to blame? and does it happen all the time? no. And would it happen if I went to a dealer to report it? Well only if I left the car running I I turned the engine off it would reset its self.
this is the problem with tech, it malfunctions randomly and has anoying intermittant faults. who's ever had a smart phone and installed more than one app on it and never had a random freeze or other random malfunction? nobody who's ever had a smartphone and used it as a smart phone. Android, Apple, Windows, Blackberry they all did it. ironically Nokia Symbian OS now dead was the only one that was reasonably stable.